The fact that the Berliner Philharmoniker turned to Puccini – this beloved yet ostracized composer – is symbolic. Here is someone who was thought to be outmoded for a long time, but there is really so much more to be discovered about him and his work. The tale of one who becomes a model but remains a girl, is very contemporary.
Opera in four acts
Music by Giacomo Puccini after Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut des Abbé Prévost
Berliner Philharmoniker
Philharmonia Choir Vienna
Artistic team
Conductor | Sir Simon Rattle
Director | Richard Eyre
Stage designer | Robert Howell
Costume designer | Fotini Dimou
Lighting designer | Peter Mumford
Cast
Manon Lescaut | Eva-Maria Westbroek
Lescaut | Lester Lynch
Chevalier Renato Des Grieux | Massimo Giordano
Geronte de Ravoir | Liang Li
Edmond | Bogdan Mihai
Inn-keeper | Reinhard Dorn
Singer | Magdalena Kožená
Dancing Master | Kresimir Spicer
Lamp-lighter | Arthur Espiritu
Sergeant | Johannes Kammler
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