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Manon Lescaut (1998)
Directed by Manuela Crivelli, Liliana Cavani
Music · 1h 54m
TDK presents a recording of Puccini’s heart-breaking opera from one of the best opera houses of the world featuring star tenor José Cura and remarkable soprano Maria Guleghina as the two inseparable lovers. Riccardo Muti, music director of La Scala at the time of this performance, gives full weight to the alternation of social realism and private amatory psychology, of crowds and intimacy, body and spirit. And the director of this Milan production, the famous Italian film director Liliana Cavani, provides it with a realistic setting. Every scene looks like a genre painting, from which Puccini’s psychograms emerge musically. This forms the background for the two outstanding singer actors, who take the lead roles.
Cast
Maria Guleghina
José Cura
Lucio Gallo
Luigi Roni
Marco Berti
Riccardo Muti
Crew
- Director
- Manuela Crivelli, Liliana Cavani
- Writer
- Ruggero Leoncavallo, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Marco Praga
- Original Music Composer
- Giacomo Puccini
Details
- Release date
- 1998-06-30
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- TDK, Teatro alla Scala