Met Opera Live in HD: Puccinis Manon Lescaut show poster

Met Opera Live in HD: Puccinis Manon Lescaut at The Ridgefield Playhouse

Dates: (3/5/2016 )

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The Ridgefield Playhouse

80 East Ridge
Ridgefield,CT 06877

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Phone: 203-438-5795

Tickets: Ticket Price $25 | Members & Seniors $20 | Students $15

Running Time: Running time 3 hours, 8 minutes, 2 intermissions

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The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard Eyre places the action in occupied France in a film noir setting. “Desperate passion” is the phrase Puccini himself used to describe the opera that confirmed his position as the preeminent Italian opera composer of his day. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the stirring score.
World premiere: Teatro Regio, Turin, 1893. Met premiere: January 18, 1907. Few operas have surpassed Manon Lescaut in the depiction of the urgency of young love. The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury had already inspired Massenet’s Manon (1884), a relatively new and immensely popular work at the time of Manon Lescaut’s premiere. Puccini made the story his own and infused it with a new level of frank emotion and a flood of melody. The opera was his first great success, leading George Bernard Shaw to name him “the successor to Verdi.”

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