Manon wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio ... successes were received on their first nights as rapturously as Manon Lescaut The popularity of Puccinis great masterpiece has never waned and ...

"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini's third opera and first big success in Götz Friedrich's landmark 1983 ...