Manon Lescaut | |
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Opera by Giacomo Puccini | |
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Language | Italian |
Based on | Abbé Prévost's novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut |
Premiere | 1 February 1893 Teatro Regio, Turin |
Manon Lescaut (Italian: [maˈnɔn leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva , based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Turin, at the Teatro Regio.