He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

On commencing his next opera, Manon Lescaut, Puccini announced that he would write his own libretto so that " no fool of a librettist " could spoil it.

Manon Lescaut was a great success and laid the foundations for Puccini's career and reputation.

* Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva ( premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893 )

Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.

First page of the redacted 1753 edition of Manon Lescaut.

Manon Lescaut ( L ' Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut ) is a short novel by French author Abbé Prévost.

Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut.

* Manon Lescaut ( 1856 ), an opera by French composer Daniel Auber

* Manon Lescaut ( 1893 ), an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini

* Manon Lescaut ( 1830 ), a ballet by Jean-Louis Aumer.

In the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Manon Lescaut is an all-important model and point of comparison for Marguerite's life, loves, and death.

In the opening pages, the narrator encounters a copy of Manon Lescaut in the auction of Marguerite Gautier's estate, and buys it.

" The narrator learns this copy of Manon Lescaut was a gift from Armand to Marguerite, Armand telling him that she read the story " over and over again ," making notes in the margins and " declar that when a woman loves, she can not do as Manon did.

) In Act I of Dumas's play The Lady of the Camellias, the characters attend a performance of the ballet Manon Lescaut.

In chapter 4 of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian leafs through a copy of Manon Lescaut while waiting for Lord Henry.

In Book II chapter 28 of Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir, Julien and the woman he pretends to court, Madame de Fervaques, watch the opera Manon Lescaut while Julien is really thinking about his other lovers, Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de la Mole.

Michael Fane, the hero of Compton Mackenzie's controversial novel, Sinister Street, reads Manon Lescaut just before plunging into his own hopeless pursuit of a ' fallen woman '.

In the mystery novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers and its series adaptation by BBC Television, Lord Peter Wimsey solves the case by reference to Manon Lescaut.

Manon Lescaut is mentioned in a novel written by an important Romanian writer, Mihail Drumes.

In one of his novels, entitled Invitatie la vals, referring to Carl Maria von Weber's " Invitation to the Dance " ( later orchestrated by Berlioz ), a comparison is made between the novel's main character and Manon Lescaut.

* Manon Lescaut ( 1940 )

* March 17 – Madame Roland ( Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon ), French politician ( d. 1793 )

), prompting Manon to leave him for a richer man because she cannot stand the thought of living in penury.

* Manon ( 1884 ), an opera by French composer Jules Massenet

* L ' histoire de Manon ( 1974 ), a ballet with music by Jules Massenet

In Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz ( Venus in Furs ), the masochistic hero Severin refers approvingly to the Chevalier's love for Manon even after she has left him for another man.

* Manon Lescaut ( 1926 ), directed by Arthur Robison, with Lya de Putti

* Manon ( 1949 ), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, with Michel Auclair and Cécile Aubry.

Henri Valienne ( 1854-1908 ), a physician and author of the first novel in the constructed language Esperanto, translated Manon Lescaut into the international language.

These included Nelusko in L ' Africaine ( Meyerbeer's last opera ), Mephistopheles in La damnation de Faust ( a role also sung by basses ), the Priest of Dagon in Samson and Delilah, Escamillo in Carmen, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, Lescaut in Manon, Athanael in Thaïs and Herod in Hérodiade.

* Manon Thomas ( 1963 ), television presenter

* Manon van Rooijen ( b. 1982 ), freestyle swimmer

They had a daughter together, Manon Gropius ( 1916 – 1935 ), who died of polio at the age of 18.

* 1981 Manon ( マノン ), by Katsuhiro Maeda

The 1850s were marked by Manon Lescaut, an opéra comique with a tragic end ( 1856 ), and revisions of Le cheval de bronze and Fra Diavolo ( both 1857 ).

Wewelsburg is also featured in the video game Medal of Honor: Underground ( 2000 ), in a mission where French Resistance Fighter Manon is sent to uncover Himmler's occult activities in the castle.

Massenet also wrote a one-act sequel to Manon, Le portrait de Manon ( 1894 ), involving the Chevalier des Grieux as an older man.

The first Manon was Marie Heilbron ; other noted interpreters include Sybil Sanderson ( Massenet's personal favorite ), Fanny Heldy, Lucrezia Bori, Bidu Sayao, Victoria de los Ángeles, Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills, Edita Gruberova, Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, and Natalie Dessay.

With the disruption of the fire at the Opéra-Comique and Massenet's work on other operatic projects ( especially Esclarmonde ), it was put to one side, until the Vienna Opera, pleased with the success of Manon, asked the composer for a new work.

Manon Lescaut is still widely read in Nezval's version, it was also adapted to film ( 1970, directed by Josef Henke, starring Jana Preissová as Manon, Petr Štěpánek as de Grieux ).

* Manon 70, directed by Jean Aurel, released in 1968 and starring Catherine Deneuve.

Highlights in Boston that she conducted and / or stage directed included La voyage de la lune, Otello ( with Tito Gobbi as Iago ), Command Performance ( world premiere ), Manon and Faust ( both with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle ), Lulu ( U. S. East Coast premiere ), I puritani ( with Dame Joan Sutherland ), Intolleranza ( U. S. premiere ), Boris Godunov ( original version ), Hippolyte et Aricie ( U. S. stage premiere, with Plácido Domingo ), La bohème ( with Renata Tebaldi and Domingo ), Moses und Aron ( U. S. premiere ), The Rake's Progress, Bluebeard's Castle, Carmen ( with Marilyn Horne ), Macbeth ( original version ), The Good Soldier Schweik, The Fisherman and His Wife ( world premiere, with Muriel Costa-Greenspon ), La finta giardiniera, Norma ( with Sills ), Les Troyens, Don Carlos ( U. S. premiere of original French version ), Don Quichotte, War and Peace ( U. S. stage premiere, with Arlene Saunders ), Benvenuto Cellini ( U. S. premiere, with Jon Vickers ), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Montezuma ( U. S. premiere ), Ruslan and Ludmila ( U. S. premiere ), Rigoletto ( with Sills, Richard Fredricks, and Susanne Marsee ), Stiffelio ( U. S. stage premiere ), La damnation de Faust, Tosca ( with Magda Olivero ), La vide breve, El retablo de maese Pedro, The Ice Break ( U. S. premiere ), Aïda ( with Shirley Verrett in the title role ), Die Soldaten ( U. S. premiere ), The Invisible City of Kitezh, Taverner ( U. S. premiere ), The Makropoulos Case ( with Anja Silja, William Cochran, and Chester Ludgin ), Médée ( in French and Greek ), Dead Souls ( U. S. premiere ), Der Rosenkavalier ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones ), and, finally, The Balcony ( world premiere, 1990 ).

* Manon des Sources ( 1952 film ), a French film directed by Marcel Pagnol, based on his novel " L ' eau des collines "

* Manon des Sources ( 1986 film ), a French film directed by Claude Berri

* Manon des sources ( 1986 ), directed by Claude Berri starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil