Manon Lescaut | |
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Opéra comique by Daniel Auber | |
Librettist | Eugène Scribe |
Language | French |
Based on | Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost |
Premiere | 23 February 1856 Salle Favart, Paris |
Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in three acts by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon, is based on Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). Auber's version is nowadays the least-performed of the three.