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This page lists all recordings of Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924).
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
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Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Robert Gambill
Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Forbes Robinson (Geronte), Robin Leggate (Edmondo), Anna Cooper (Madrigal Singer)
The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
an ideal cast of principals and passionate, idiomatic conducting...the glorious singing of Placido Domingo as Des Grieux comes over heroically, and Kiri te Kanawa as Manon is both girlish and... — More…
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…
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Maria Callas (Manon Lescaut), Giuseppe di Stefano (Des Grieux), Giulio Fioravanti (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte), Dino Formichini (Edmondo), Fiorenza Cossotto (Madrigal singer)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
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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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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
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…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Antonello Palombi (Edmondo), Patrick Denniston (Chevalier des Grieux), Paolo Montarsolo (Geronte Di Ravoir), Roberto De Candia (Lescaut), Adina Nitescu (Manon Lescaut), Richard Mosley-Evans (The Innkeeper), Sarah Connolly (A Musician), Christopher Lemmings (The Dancing Master), Kevin Sharp (A Sergeant...
Gardiner makes a surprising appearance conducting Puccini with a blend of analysis and passion, allowing a sense of delicacy to pervade where others might encourage bombast...Nitescu makes a... — More…
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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…
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