Articles linked to Manon Lescaut

Interview with Corinne Winters, double Iphigénie at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Soprano Corinne Winters' career sounds like a series of challenges, the latest of which is a Gluck double bill at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2024, where she will sing the title role in both Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride on the same night with maestra Emmanuelle Haïm and director Dmitri Tcherniakov. After a glorious debut as Katja Kabanova at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, she took over the Janáček character in Geneva,...

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Published onthe 25 of June

Jonas Kaufmann recounts Manon Lescaut

At the age of 44, the great German tenor, today considered the greatest of his generation, has chosen to add a new role to his repertoire, that of Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. After Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca and Dick Jonhson in La Fanciulla del West, this is only his third Puccini role, even though his baritone-tinged tenor voice seems ideally made for this repertoire. Why did he wait so long? Perhaps just because he was never offered it. Or because he felt that, before...

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Published onthe 17 of June

A new Manon Lescaut by Puccini

Following in the footsteps of Enrico Caruso, Carlo Bergonzi and Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann is taking over the role of Chevalier Des Grieux in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.His role at the Royal Opera House gives us an opportunity to take another look at a work that ushered in verismo and revealed a “new” Manon Lescaut after Massenet’s.   “Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in", Giacomo Puccini wrote to...

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Published onthe 17 of June