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Browse: Puccini - Manon Lescaut
This page lists all recordings of Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924).
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Jonas Kaufmann (Des Grieux), Kristine Opolais (Manon Lescaut), Christopher Maltman (Lescaut), Maurizio Muraro (Gerontes) & Benjamin Hulett (Edmondo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Royal Opera House Chorus, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Jonathan Kent (director)
Kaufmann is a gloriously ardent Des Grieux, recklessly embarking upon an emotional journey almost as distressing as that of the heroine herself. Kristine Opolais matches him in a performance... — More…
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Licia Albanese (Manon Lescaut), Jussi Björling (Des Grieux), Robert Merrill (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte/Un sergente degli arcieri), Mario Carlin (Edmondo/Il maestro di ballo/Lampionaio), Anna Maria Rota (Una voce sola), Plinio Clabassi (L'oste/Un comandante di Marina)
Rome Opera House...
With Bjoerling as Des Grieux giving one of this very finest performances on disc and with Robert Merrill in glorious voice as Lescaut, the Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea conducts one of the... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Robert Gambill
Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Jonas Kaufmann: The Puccini Edition
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (Des Grieux), Kristine Opolais (Manon Lescaut), Christopher Maltman (Lescaut), Maurizio Muraro (Gerontes) & Benjamin Hulett (Edmondo), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Nina Stemme (Minnie), Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance), Kristine Opolais (soprano)
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CD + 3 DVD Videos
$41.00In stock
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Anna Netrebko (Manon Lescaut), Yusif Eyvazov (Des Grieux), Armando Piña (Lescaut), Carlos Chausson (Geronte), Benjamin Bernheim (Edmondo)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Marco Armiliato
Netrebko’s Manon soars over the rest of the cast, framed attentively, eloquently and imaginatively by Marco Armiliato and the Munich Radio Orchestra. It’s a riveting, sometimes wayward performance... — More…
2 CDs
$31.25In stock
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
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... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giulio Fioraventi, Dino Formachini
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
This performance is unique, with Act 4 for once a culmination in Callas's supreme account of the death scene. She may present a rather formidable portrait of a young girl in Act 1, but here the... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Maria Chiara (Manon Lescaut), Nicola Martinucci (Renato des Grieux), Angelo Romero (Lescaut), Alfredo Mariotti (Geronte di Ravoir), Mario Ferrara (Edmondo)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Angelo Campori
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Renato Bruson (Lescaut), Kurt Rydl (Geronte), Robert Gambill (Edmondo), Brigitte Fassbaender (Una voce sola), John Tomlinson (Un comandante di Marina)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Covent Garden Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli
The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading. — More…
2 CDs
$20.75In stock
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Montserrat Caballé (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Chevalier Des Grieux), Noel Mangin (Geronte de Ravoir), Vicente Sardinero (Lescaut), Robert Tear (Edmondo), Richard Van Allan (The Innkeeper), Bernard Dickerson (The Dancing Master), Delia Wallis (A Singer), Robert Lloyd (Sargeant of the Royal Archers),...
The New Philharmonia Orchestra sparkles and shimmers under the baton of Bruno Bartoletti in this recording with Montserrat Caballé in the title role. She treats us to some of the most expressive... — More…
2 CDs
$18.50In stock
