The Washington National Opera’s brilliant revival of “Manon Lescaut” demonstrates that as early as 1893, when Giacomo Puccini was writing this, his first popular work, he knew well how to use music to ...
However, it has be said that Jude Christian’s production seriously misfires. Often crass and crude, strewn with farcical, pointless bits of business and dressed in a repulsive palette of ...
New York's Heartbeat Opera will present MANON!, a musical theater revamp of the iconic story of love, glamour, and reinvention. Heartbeat takes a radically new approach to Massenet's 1884 French opera ...