MANON
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Opera in five acts in French
Libretto: Meilhac & GillePremièr at Opéra Comique, Paris – 19 January 1884
27 October 1958
Fox Theater, San Diego
Conductor: Jean Fournet
Chorus master: Gianni Lazzari
Stage director: Enrico Frigerio
Costumes: Goldstein & Co.Choreographer: Eugene Loring
Manon Lescaut LEYLA GENCER soprano
Chevalier des Grieux RICHARD LEWIS tenor
Count des Grieux, his father LORENZO ALVARY bass
Lescaut Manon's cousin LOUIS QULICO baritone
Guillot Morfontaine, a roué Howard Fried tenor
De Bretigny a nobleman John Gillaspy baritone
Poussette Sylvia Stahlman soprano
Javotte Joan Marie Moynagh soprano
Rosette Margot Blum soprano
Innkeeper Eugene Green
Maid Pauline Pappas
First Guard Robert Thomas
Second Guard Harold Enns
Attendant at St. Sulpice Max Lorenzini
Sergeant Winther Andersen
Chevalier des Grieux RICHARD LEWIS tenor
Count des Grieux, his father LORENZO ALVARY bass
Lescaut Manon's cousin LOUIS QULICO baritone
Guillot Morfontaine, a roué Howard Fried tenor
De Bretigny a nobleman John Gillaspy baritone
Poussette Sylvia Stahlman soprano
Javotte Joan Marie Moynagh soprano
Rosette Margot Blum soprano
Innkeeper Eugene Green
Maid Pauline Pappas
First Guard Robert Thomas
Second Guard Harold Enns
Attendant at St. Sulpice Max Lorenzini
Sergeant Winther Andersen
Time: 1721
Place: Amines, Paris, HavreOPERA NEWS
1958.09.23
