Puccini's first great operatic success, and still a repertoire favorite, relating the story of a young girl who casts aside her first love for prospects of a life of luxury, a move that ultimately proves disastrous. Authoritative Italian edition.
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Manon Lescaut is one of Puccini's less successful scores, although many people prefer his slight astringency to Amassment's sweeter treatment of the same subject. It has some lovely moments, though, particularly for the tenor. This orchestral version has all the parts, but no English translation; you'll need your own, or a good Italian dictionary.
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Burton D. Fisher is author-editor-publisher of the Opera Classics Library Series, Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series, Opera Journeys Libretto Series, and "A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamophoses." The principal lecturer of the Opera Journeys Lecture Series, an accredited undergraduate course of the Florida International University School of Music, a commissioned author of Season Guides and Program Notes for regional oepra companies, and a frequent opera commentator on National Public Radio.
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I don't know who wrote the short introduction to this score, but it's someone who simply does not have any idea about the opera: Manon Lescaut is a true, complete, mature masterwork by a composer whose astonishing craftmanship is at the same level of his incomparable, and unanimously praised melodic gift. The Dover score is the reproduction of the most authoritative edition, and show the usual, excellent standard of all Dover scores.
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