Manon Lescaut
By: music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, and Giulio Ricordi ; produced by Channel Four Television Corporation, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and NVC Arts
Contributors: Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763; Nitescu, Adina, 1965-; Denniston, Patrick; De Candia, Roberto; Montarsolo, Paolo; Palombi, Antonello; Gardiner, John Eliot; Vick, Graham, 1953-; Hudson, Richard, 1954-; Tipton, Jennifer; Burton, Humphrey, 1931-; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; Kultur International Films
Publisher: Kultur
Published: 2007
Place of publication: West Long Branch, NJ
Language: ita
Translated from: ita
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780769784632
Subjects: Operas
Notes: Lyric dramma in 4 acts; libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, and Giulio Ricordi, based on the novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

Director, Graham Vick; designer, Richard Hudson; lighting designer, Jennifer Tipton; directed for video by Humphrey Burton.

Adina Nitescu (Manon Lescaut) ; Patrick Denniston (Chevalier des Grieux) ; Roberto de Candia (Lescaut) ; Paolo Montarsolo (Geronte di Ravoir) ; Antonello Palombi (Edmondo) ; supporting soloists ; Glyndebourne Chorus ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; John Eliot Gardner, conductor.

Recorded in performance in 1997.

DVD; soundtrack in LPCM stereo; aspect ratio 4:3.

Sung in Italian, with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.