Question: Which work was created first, Manon Lescaut or La liberazione di Ruggiero?
Sentence (from "Boulevard Solitude"): Boulevard Solitude is a "Lyrisches Drama " (lyric drama) or opera in one act by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Grete Weil after the play by Walter Jockisch, in its turn a modern retelling of François Prévost's "Manon Lescaut".
Relevant evidence: No