Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1980)
• March 29th, 1980 • 2h 10min
Music, Drama
Overview
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo is Des Grieux, the handsome, headstrong young aristocrat who falls head over heels for the enticing, impetuous Manon Lescaut (Renata Scotto). Manon returns his love, but her obsession with luxury ruins them both. Gian Carlo Menotti’s opulent production, with sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley, superbly captures the colorful world of 18th century France.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Amadeus
Released on: 1984-09-19
History, Music, Drama
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Confession of the Vanished
Released on: 2015-04-02
Documentary, Music
The film follows the staging of the opera Olimpiade while at the same time exploring the dramatic li...
Donizetti: Anna Bolena
Released on: 2011-04-05
Music
Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the ...
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Released on: 2017-03-30
Music
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her ro...
Die Entführung aus dem Paradies
Released on: 2009-09-21
Music
The man looks back on a turbulent love life, which he does not dare to opt definitively for a perman...
The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin
Released on: 2017-04-22
Music
Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah War...
Der Rosenkavalier
Released on: 2017-05-13
Music
In his new production, Robert Carsen places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscori...
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
Released on: 2003-07-23
Music
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story c...
Tosca
Released on: 1941-01-31
Drama, Music
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia de...
Farinelli
Released on: 1994-12-01
History, Drama, Music
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Così fan tutte
Released on: 2016-10-17
Music
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House)
Released on: 2019-10-24
Music, Comedy
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...
Car Men
Released on: 2006-11-26
Comedy, Music
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
The Marriage of Figaro
Released on: 1993-12-01
Music, Comedy
This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...
Lucia di Lammermoor
Released on: 1983-09-28
Music, Drama
This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first ...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio
Released on: 2003-10-15
Music
Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose cert...
Hannah and Her Sisters
Released on: 1986-02-07
Comedy, Drama
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
![Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original//wG8lsDbBYqpj7j3rmge1aBIKDEk.jpg)
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
Released on: 2010-02-06
Music
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domin...