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.

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 () is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L ’ histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon, is based on the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut.

Des Grieux comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon.

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

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

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 ).

North Gladiola, a 1985 novel by James Wilcox, opens with a reference to Manon Lescaut, and mentions the character again later in the text.

Manon is also referenced in the films Manon des Sources ( 1953 by Marcel Pagnol and 1986 by Claude Berri ) and Jean de Florette ( entitled Ugolin in 1953 by Marcel Pagnol and 1986 by Claude Berri ).

When Manon died of polio at age 18, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her ( it is inscribed " to the memory of an angel ").

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

The composer worked at the score of Manon at his country home outside Paris and also at a house at The Hague once occupied by Prévost himself.

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.

Carl's earlier love, Manon, is another entertainer at the cafe, who has mixed feelings about Sarah (" If Love Were All ").

In October 2008, the IHL's Port Huron Icehawks announced that they going to have Manon Rhéaume take part in their training camp activities and will play for at least a period of the team's exhibition season opener.

* Manon Rhéaume at the Women's Hockey Web

* Manon Rhéaume: The Woman Behind the Mask at NFB. ca

In 1997, Fleming portrayed the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and her first Manon at the Opéra Bastille, receiving glowing reviews.

In 2001, Fleming sang Desdemona in Otello with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Manon with the Paris Opera, the Marschallin with both the San Francisco Opera and the Met, and Arabella at both the Bavarian State Opera and the Met.

In 2005, Fleming sang the title role in Massenet's Manon at the Met, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello at Covent Garden, and Thaïs in Vienna.

In 2006, Fleming performed a solo concert at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Sir Andrew Davis, sang Violetta in Verdi's La traviata with Los Angeles Opera, and returned to the Met to sing Manon and Rodelinda.

Mainstays of the repertory at the Opéra-Comique during its history have included the following works which have each been performed more than 1, 000 times by the company: Cavalleria Rusticana, Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème, Werther and Carmen, the last having been performed more than 2, 500 times.

From the fall of 1962 through the spring of 1963 she toured Mexico, at one point singing the title role in Massenet's Manon at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

She performed at The Metropolitan Opera for seventeen seasons in roles such as Lucia, Gilda, Adina, Mimi, Liù, Nedda, Pamina, Marguerite, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande, Périchole, the four heroines of Les contes d ' Hoffmann, etc.

Other important roles she has sung include Zerbinetta, Gilda, Violetta, Lucia, Konstanze, Manon and Oscar ; she sang Donna Anna at La Scala in 1987, Marie in La fille du régiment in 1987, Semiramide in 1992 at Zürich, Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux in Vienna in 1990.

After receiving lessons in Paris from the renowned teacher Mathilde Marchesi, who gave her her stage name, Alda made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1904 in Massenet's Manon.

Muzio made her operatic début in Arezzo ( 15 January 1910 ) in the title-role of Massenet's Manon, and despite her youth she made rapid progress in the opera-houses of Italy, leading to débuts at La Scala in Milan in 1913 ( as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello ), in Paris ( as Desdemona ) and in London at Covent Garden ( as Puccini's Manon Lescaut ) in 1914 ; she stayed on in London to sing other roles including Mimì and Tosca ( both with Caruso ).