opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoJules Massenet, Manon (1884)
libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille
Opéra National de Paris, 2020
- Conductor: Dan Ettinger
- Director: Vincent Huguet
- Set Designer: Aurélie Maestre
- Manon: Pretty Yende
- Chevalier des Grieux: Benjamin Bernheim
- Lescaut: Ludovic Tézier
I have a special fondness for this production, because I was left with an unused ticket to it when it was interrupted by pandemic in the spring of 2020. Pretty Yende is a fabulous Manon, and Benjamin Bernheim nicely conveys a mix of boyish callowness and emotional anguish.