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Puccini - Manon Lescaut [DVD] [1980]

DVD ~ Renata Scotto

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Actors: Renata Scotto, Pl�cido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, Renato Capecchi, Philip Creech
Directors: Kirk Browning
Writers: Abb� Pr�vost, Giuseppe Giacosa
Producers: Clemente D'Alessio, Karen Adler, Michael Bronson
Format: AC-3, Classical, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, PAL, Subtitled
Language Italian
Subtitles: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Universal Music Operations
DVD Release Date: 10 April 2006
Run Time: 132 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B000E5KOK2
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57,749 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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#77 in Music > Opera & Vocal > Opera > By Composer > Operas-Complete > Puccini

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MANON LESCAUT, the tragic opera that catapulted Giacomo Puccini to fame and fortune, tells the story of the beautiful young Manon, whose intention to join a convent becomes interrupted by the affections of two men: the poor and romantic poet Renato des Grieux and the vile tax collector Geronte de Revoir. Manon lives with both the men, one in abject poverty, the other in stifling opulence; in the end she chooses love over money, but it is a decision that leads to her death. Renata Scotto plays the role of the innocent yet vain Manon Lescaut and the great tenor Placido Domingo plays her poor poet lover in this 1980 production at the Metropolitan Opera.

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'Manon Lescaut' has fared pretty well on DVD, but nothing comes close to this classic Metropolitan performance of 1980. This was my first encounter with opera, on television or stage, and of course I feared that it wouldn't hold up this second time around, now that I'm so much the wiser.
But it shines as magnificently as ever. The young Levine really gets his teeth into the Italian melodrama, and the orchestra plays beautifully. Granted, Menotti's direction opts for tradition and decent representation, and the sets in their drabness is very much of their time too. But the drama, the singing! The well-rounded, molten, Italianate sounds that the young Domingo emits are what opera is all about. That and his total involvement with the part. And to me this was Scotto's signature role, bewitching and coquettish in the first two acts, unfailingly tragic in the last two. There is no soprano ever whose 'Sola, perduta, abbandonata' I would rather listen to.

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