Puccini: Manon Lescaut

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With Luciano Pavarotti a powerful Des Grieux, James Levine conducts a comparably big-boned performance of Manon Lescaut, bringing out the red-blooded drama of Puccini's first big success, while... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 4402002
Label: Decca
Series: Opera Sets
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 1

Work length33:58

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$13.80

Ramón Vargas (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Federico Davia (bass (vocal)), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
James Levine
Recorded: 1992-08
Recording Venue: Manhattan Center Studios, New York

Ave, sera gentile

Track length4:24

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L'amor?! L'amor?!

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Tra voi belle, brune e bionde

Track length1:10

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Ma bravo!

Track length1:48

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Discendono, vediam!

Track length2:01

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Cortese damigella

Track length3:46

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Donna non vidi mai

Track length2:11

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La tua ventura ci rassicura

Track length5:45

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La tua Proserpina

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Vedete? Io son fedele

Track length3:56

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Non c'è più vino?

Track length1:42

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Di sedur la sorellina è il momento

Track length4:17

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 2

Work length40:21

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Mirella Freni (soprano), Anthony Laciura (tenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), James Courtney (bass (vocal)), Dwayne Croft (baritone), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
James Levine
Recorded: 1992-08
Recording Venue: Manhattan Center Studios, New York

Dispettosetto questo riccio!

Track length5:32

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In quelle trine morbide

Track length2:31

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Poichè tu vuoi saper?

Track length3:08

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Che ceffi son costor? ... Sulla vetta tu del monte

Track length2:12

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Paga costor!

Track length1:14

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Minuetto

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Oh, sarò la più bella!...Tu, tu, amore tu

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Ah! Affé, madamigella

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Senti, di qui partiamo ... Ah, Manon mi tradisce

Track length3:31

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Lescaut? Tu qui?

Track length3:32

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut - Act 3

Work length21:55

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$6.90

Paul Groves (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano), James Courtney (bass (vocal)), Federico Davia (bass (vocal)), Dwayne Croft (baritone)
Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera Chorus
James Levine
Recorded: 1992-08
Recording Venue: Manhattan Center Studios, New York

Intermezzo

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Ansia eterna, crudel

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... e Kate ripose al Re

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All'armi! All'armi!

Track length1:46

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Rosetta!

Track length3:50

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Presto! In fila!

Track length3:28

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4

Work length23:03

$4.25

$5.75

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano)
Metropolitan Opera
James Levine
Recorded: 1992-08
Recording Venue: Manhattan Center Studios, New York

Tutta su me ti posa

Track length3:05

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Manon, senti, amor mio

Track length1:58

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Sei tu che piangi?

Track length5:35

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Sola, perduta, abbandonata

Track length4:46

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Fra le tue braccie, amore

Track length7:39

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2010

With Luciano Pavarotti a powerful Des Grieux, James Levine conducts a comparably big-boned performance of Manon Lescaut, bringing out the red-blooded drama of Puccini's first big success, while not ignoring its warmth and tender poetry in exceptionally full, vivid sound with the voices well in front of the orchestra. In the title-role Freni's performance culminates in an account of the big Act 4 aria, more involving and passionate than any of the others on rival versions, with the voice showing no signs of wear, and with her sudden change of face at the words 'terra di pace' ('a land of peace') bringing a magical lightening of tone.
That aria makes a thrilling climax, when too often this act can seem a letdown. In this as in so much else, Levine conveys the tensions and atmosphere of a stage performance in a way that owes much to his experience at the Metropolitan.
More completely than other versions, it avoids the feeling of a studio performance.
Reactions to Pavarotti as Des Grieux will differ widely. The closeness of balance means that in volume his singing rarely drops below mezzoforte, but there's little harm in having so passionate a portrait of Des Grieux as Pavarotti's.
Needless to say, the hero's big emotional climaxes in each of the first three acts come over at full force. The rest of the cast is strong too, with Dwayne Croft a magnificent Lescaut.
Many collectors will count this a clear first choice among current versions.

November 1993

Levine conveys the tensions and atmosphere of a stage performance in a way that plainly owes much to his experience at the Metropolitan...it avoids the feeling of a studio performance....[Pavarotti], characteristically, points word meaning with a bright-eyed intensity that compels attention.

2010 edition

Levine brings out all the red-blooded drama of Puccini's first big success, while not ignoring the warmth and tender poetry...Cecilia Bartoli makes the unnamed singer in the Act II entertainment into far more than a cipher

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