First impressions are important, but they shouldn't lead to snap judgment. It is usually wiser to stop and think, but in the world of opera – especially Puccini – lovers tend to fall in love at first ...

The page of a giant book filled the proscenium of the Kennedy Center Opera House and slid open, at the start of each scene, to reveal the events it was narrating. Cliche? Absolutely, but at least it ...

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Giacomo Puccini’s early masterpiece Manon Lescaut is rarely staged, partly due to its vocal demands, and because it is far darker in tone than Massenet’s prettily romantic Manon -also based on the ...

Content provided by Rolex Partner, “Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in”, Giacomo Puccini wrote to Giulio Ricordi, his publisher, who actively supported him after his first opera, Le Villi (1884).