San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring productions of Simon Boccanegra, Mary, Queen of Scots, Manon, ...

3 SFBATCC Names New Leadership Team for Historic 50th Season Last performed by San Francisco Opera in 1998, Massenet's romantic opera, which follows the ascent and fall of a beautiful and capricious ...

Anna Netrebko (Manon); Roberto Alagna (Des Grieux); Ain Anger (Count des Grieux); Adrian Eröd(Lescaut); Simina Ivan (Poussette); Sophie Marilley(Javotte); Juliette ...

Gaspar/Hipp/Bemsch/Zhou/Southbank Sinfonia/Paterson/Krafft (Opera Rara) Dating from 1894, Le Portrait de Manon is Massenet's sequel to his own Manon, premiered a ...

After the brief orchestral prelude to Manon, the curtain rises on what is supposed to be the courtyard of an inn in Amiens, France. At this year’s San Francisco Opera production of Manon, all we saw ...

PARIS—Director Coline Serreau asks too much of the audience with her new staging of Jules Massenet's "Manon." She spends the first half unmercifully sending up the venerable old favorite, piling on ...

Even the most idealistic lovers often have to overcome a few hurdles — and sometimes, they don't succeed. From the idyllic surroundings of Glimmerglass Opera, in upstate New York (a perfect place for ...

Although it undoubtedly ranks as a masterpiece, Massenet's Manon is a fragile opera. Unlike say, Puccini's La Bohème (which it influenced), it doesn't take kindly to rough treatment and ineffectual ...