Soprano Anna Netrebko portrays the conflicted title character, and tenor Roberto Alagna sings Des Grieux, her only hope for true love, in Jules Massenet's passionate opera Manon from the Vienna ...

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The coloratura soprano Sarah Coburn makes her Santa Barbara debut this Friday and Sunday in Opera Santa Barbara’s Manon. Massenet’s popular classic offers sopranos one of the most challenging roles in ...

Consider the scene: A drawing room where pasty-faced men awash in privilege and lust strut about displaying pouty mistresses like prize cattle. As Kenneth MacMillan’s “Manon” had its much ...

Director Coline Serreau asks too much of the audience with her new staging of Jules Massenet's "Manon" at the Opéra Bastille. Luckily, the music swoops to the rescue.

San Francisco Opera brought back Massenet’s opera “Manon” after a 19-year absence Saturday evening in Vincent Boussard’s new production, which… ...

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Conceived as an answer to Verdi, Massenet’s Manon is one of the high water marks of late 19th century French opera comique, even though it ends with its wasted heroine dying in her lover’s ...

Yet Massenet’s operas claim strong devotees, not the least of whom is Fleming, who has long included the roles of “Manon” and “Thais” in her extensive repertoire.