product id: 37997
Composer/Artist: Massenet, Jules
Arrangement: opera
Product type: Score
Media: Sheet Music
Pages: 432
Language: French
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 31.95 euro Jules Massenet exercised a profound influence on French opera. 'Manon' is the masterpiece of his numerous works and has been a staple of the repertoire for over a century. The libretto for this work, by playwright Henri Meilhac and journalist Philippe Gille, is based on L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. Retaining the novel's eighteenth-century setting, Massenet's opera offers noisy crowd scenes, passionate duets, and tense melodramas, which certainly pleased the Opera-Comique's patrons - it was an instant popular success. Song list
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