Gille based on the 1731 Abbe Prevost novel "Manon Lescaut", which became his biggest hit; Listen . On Feb. 16, 1892 he debuted his opera Werther at the Imperial Theatre Hofoper in Vienna, with libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet, and Georges Hartman based on Goethe's 1774 novel "The Sorrows of