Massenet: Manon
Angela Gheorghiu (Manon), Roberto Alagna (Des Grieux), Earle Patriarco (Lescaut), José van Dam (Comte des Grieux)
Orchestre Symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie, Antonio Pappano
Awards:
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Building a Library, December 2000, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Opera
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Building a Library, March 2018, First Choice
In Act 1 Gheorghiu instantly establishes the heroine as a vivacious, wilful character with a great sense of fun and her singing is both imaginative and technically flawless...while Alagna, always...
Massenet: Manon
Angela Gheorghiu (Manon), Roberto Alagna (Des Grieux), Earle Patriarco (Lescaut), José van Dam (Comte des Grieux)
Orchestre Symphonique et Chœurs de la Monnaie, Antonio Pappano
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Awards:
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Building a Library, December 2000, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Opera
-
Building a Library, March 2018, First Choice
In Act 1 Gheorghiu instantly establishes the heroine as a vivacious, wilful character with a great sense of fun and her singing is both imaginative and technically flawless...while Alagna, always...
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Manon starring Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna was recorded in 1999 at the Cirque Royal, Brussels.
Contents and tracklist
- Roberto Alagna (tenor), Maryvonne Deprez (soprano), Nathalie Perin (soprano), Renato Balsadonna (director), Julien Weisgerber (bass), Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Susanne Schimmack (soprano), Yves Goffinet (baritone), Yann-Armel Quemener (tenor), Nicolas Rivenq (baritone), Ghila Kovács (mezzo-soprano), Marc Coulon (tenor), Rosa Brandao (contralto), Gilles Ragon (tenor), Earle Patriarco (baritone), Luc de Meulenaere (tenor), Pascal Macou (tenor), Mariella Moeskops (contralto), José van Dam (baritone), Lieve Jacobs (mezzo-soprano), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Hans Leether (tenor), Anna Maria Panzarella (soprano), Bernard Villiers (baritone), Nicolas Cavallier (bass), Ernest Frère (baritone), Gérard Lavalle (baritone)
- Orchestra of the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels, Chorus of the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Brussels
- Antonio Pappano
- Recorded: 1999-05-09
- Recording Venue: 23 April - 9 May 1999 / Cirque Royal Brussels
Awards and reviews
2011 edition
In Act 1 Gheorghiu instantly establishes the heroine as a vivacious, wilful character with a great sense of fun and her singing is both imaginative and technically flawless...while Alagna, always at his happiest in French-language opera, portrays Des Grieux as full of eager innocence as well as passion