Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lescaut (2006) [DVD9 NTSC]

Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lescaut (2006) [DVD9 NTSC]

Renata Scotto · Plácido Domingo
Pablo Elvira · Renato Capecchi
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
James Levine
Production by Gian Carlo Menotti
Int. Release 01 Mar. 2006
1 DVD-Video
DVD-VIDEO NTSC 0440 073 4241 1 GH
STEREO: PCM / SURROUND: Dolby Digital 5.1 & DTS 5.1
Picture Format: 4:3
Subtitles: Italian/French/German/English/Spanish/Chinese
A production of Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.

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Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

The libretto is in Italian, and was cobbled together by five librettists whom Puccini employed: Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marco Praga, Giuseppe Giacosa, Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica. The publisher, Giulio Ricordi, and the composer himself also contributed to the libretto. So confused was the authorship of the libretto that no one was credited on the title page of the original score. However, it was Illica and Giacosa who completed the libretto and went on to contribute the libretti to Puccini's next three – and most successful – works, La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.[1]

Puccini took some musical elements in Manon Lescaut from earlier works he had written. For example, the madrigal Sulla vetta tu del monte from Act II echoes the Agnus Dei from his 1880 Messa a quattro voci. Other elements of Manon Lescaut come from his compositions for strings: the quartet Crisantemi (January 1890), three Menuets (probably 1884)[2] and a Scherzo (1883?). The love theme comes from the aria Mentia l'avviso (1883).


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