| The Royal Opera - Manon Lescaut Reviews | 27 April 2024 |
Sondra Radvanovsky (Manon Lescaut), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Des Grieux)
Chorus
Levente Molnar (Lescaut), Sondra Radvanovsky (Manon Lescaut), Eric Halfvarson (Geronte)
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Des Grieux), Sondra Radvanovsky (Manon Lescaut)
Sondra Radvanovsky (Manon Lescaut)
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Manon LescautThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 12 | |
I didn’t see Jonathan Kent’s Manon Lescaut first time round, and won’t mind not seeing it again |
 1 Dec 16 / The Spectator |
No composer killed off his sopranos with more style than Puccini |
| 29 Nov 16 / Express |
Despite the tumultuous score this staging seems essentially cold at heart |
| 28 Nov 16 / Express |
Royal Opera’s Manon Lescaut benefits from Pappano’s masterly conducting |
| 25 Nov 16 / Seen and Heard |
Sondra Radvanovsky gets inside the role of Manon |
| 24 Nov 16 / Evening Standard |
Breathtaking orchestral playing |
| 24 Nov 16 / The Stage |
Sondra Radvanovsky dominates the first revival of Jonathan Kent's 2014 production |
| 24 Nov 16 / What's on Stage |
The last act sparks into a proper Puccini high-voltage death scene |
| 24 Nov 16 / Independent |
This Manon Lescaut is one of Covent Garden's most gratuitously ugly and aggressively nasty productions ever |
| 24 Nov 16 / Telegraph |
An evening during which the music-making far outweighs the staging |
| 24 Nov 16 / Classical Source |
Emotional power and a luminous central performance |
| 24 Nov 16 / The Guardian |
Hard hitting staging, musically mixed |
| 24 Nov 16 / Bachtrack |
Production details
Cast
Radvanovsky, Molnar, Antonenko, Halfvarson, Gomes, Barnard, Edmonds, Hall, Kim, Shipley, Crawley
(c) Pappano (d) Kent
Performance dates
22, 26, 29 November, 2, 5, 9, 12 December 2016
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22 Apr 24 / The Guardian |