Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut
Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Postcard commemorating the premiere
Librettist
LanguageItalian
Based onAbbé Prévost's novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut
Premiere
1 February 1893 (1893-02-01)

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 [it], 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.


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