English: Massenet - Manon, act I - Setting - Lande
Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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SETTING OF ACT (French) MANON (Man-on) OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Words by Meilhac and Gille, after the novel of Abbe Prevost. Music by Jules Massenet.First production at the Opera-Comique, Paris, January 19, 1884; at Brussels, March 15, 1884.First London production May 7, 1885; in English by the Carl Rosa Company, at Liverpool,January 17, 1885. In French at Covent Garden, May 19, 1891 ; in Italy at Milan, October 19,1893. First American production at New York, December 23, 1885, at the Academy ofMusic, with Minnie Hauk, Giannini and Del Puente. First New Orleans production January4, 1894. Some notable revivals were: in 1895 with Sybil Sanderson and Jean de Reszke;in 1896, with Melba and de Reszke; in 1899 with Saville, Van Dyk, Dufriche and Plan^on;in 1909, at the Metropolitan, with Caruso, Farrar, Scotti and Note; and in 1912, with Caruso,Farrar, Gilly and Reiss. Cast CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX (Shev-al-W dh GreeW) Tenor COUNT DES GRIEUX, his father . .Bass LESCAUT, (Les-koh) Manons cousin, one o
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