"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini's third opera and first big success in Götz Friedrich's landmark 1983 production at the Royal Opera House. The extraordinary Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa take on the roles of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut, accompanied by the Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Manon Lescaut (2016)
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Sondra Radvanovsky
Manon Lescaut

Levente Molnár
Lescaut

Aleksandrs Antonenko
Chevalier Renato Des Grieux

Eric Halfvarson
Geronte di Ravoir
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Luis Gomes
Edmondo

Aled Hall
Il maestro di ballo
DJK
David Junghoon Kim
Un lampionaio
DS
David Shipley
Un sergente degli arceri
NC
Nicholas Crawley
Il Commandante di Marina