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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.
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 and L
* L ' histoire de Manon ( 1974 ), a ballet with music by Jules Massenet
* Pierre Heinrich, LAbbé Prévost et la Louisiane ; étude sur la valeur historique de Manon Lescaut Paris: E. Guilmoto, 1907.
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 () 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.
The ballet L ' histoire de Manon by Kenneth Macmillan, although using music enirely written by Massenet, does not include any from Manon.
* L ' histoire de Manon ( arr.
* 1986: Manon des Sources ( US title: Manon of the Spring ) — sequel to Jean de Florette ( second half of the book L ' Eau des collines )
* Manon des Sources ( 1952 film ), a French film directed by Marcel Pagnol, based on his novel " L ' eau des collines "
The story is based on the 1731 novel L ’ histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

Manon and Histoire
* René Picard, Introduction à l ’ Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, Paris: Garnier, 1965, p. CXXX-CXXXXVII.
* Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, Hungarian TV / Télécip, 1978.
The seventh volume contained the famous Manon Lescaut, separately published in Paris in 1731 as Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.
* Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier DesGrieux par l ’ abbé Prévost.

Manon and du
" La passion du combat dans les lettres de Pierre du Calvet ", in Manon Brunet ( dir.
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.
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.

Manon and des
The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.
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 ).
pl: Historia kawalera des Grieux i Manon Lescaut
Two modern French film classics particularly capture the idyllic qualities of Provence: Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources.
In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his most memorable performances, as the scheming uncle in the two-part film: Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources, co-starring Emmanuelle Béart.
** Manon des Sources
His starring role in the historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) brought him international recognition.
* 1986: Manon des Sources
Massenet also wrote a one-act sequel to Manon, Le portrait de Manon ( 1894 ), involving the Chevalier des Grieux as an older man.
Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources were huge hits.
* 1986: Manon des Sources ( US title: Manon of the Spring )

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