Manon Lescaut Puccini
Opera Kiel

Canadian(s): Samuel Chan

Text from the Theater Kiel website:

Manon Lescaut attracts all eyes. The young Des Grieux is also in love with her at first sight and saves the fascinating girl from going to the monastery by fleeing together. But Manon has her own head and prefers to live for a while at the side of the stone-rich tax tenant Geronte than in Des Grieux’s poor student booth. But when she wants to steal jewels from Geronte in order to be able to live with Des Grieux again, she is sentenced to deportation to America as a thief. Desperate, Des Grieux embarks to New Orleans in the wake of his captured lover …

“It seems to me that Puccini will be the actual successor of Verdi more than any of his competitors,” predicted none other than George Bernard Shaw after hearing “Manon Lescaut.” Puccini’s world career as the most successful opera composer of his generation began with this literary setting based on the famous novel by Abbé Prévost from the 18th century. century. The eponymous youthful beauty is the prime example of an objectified young woman reduced to her external charms alone, who cannot resist the hype about her own person. The internationally successful director Julia Burbach debuts with “Manon Lescaut” in Kiel.

OCCUPATION

Musical director Benjamin Reiners
Directed by Julia Burbach
Directing collaboration Franciska Ery
Equipment Bettina John
Choral rehearsal Gerald Krammer
Dramaturgy Ulrich Frey

Manon Lescaut: Agnieszka Hauzer
Chevalier Renato Des Grieux: Andeka Gorrotxategi
Lescaut, Manon’s brother: Samuel Chan
Geronte de Ravoir, Treasurer General: Matteo Maria Ferretti
Edmondo, student: Konrad Furian
The Innkeeper: Junggeun Choi
A Musico: Gabriele Vasiliauskaite
The dance master: Hojoon Lee
A lantern guard: Sergey Rotach
Sergeant of the archers: Junggeun Choi
The naval commander: Salomón Zulic del Canto

Choir opera choir and extra choir of the Theater Kiel