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Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is a performance of one of Massenet’s most popular opera, Manon, recorded last year at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

Pretty Yende stars as Manon Lescaut in this five-act drama based on the 1731 novel by Abbé Prévost. Lescaut, a well-meaning young man, is led astray by his love for a young woman he finds irresistible. Many other men also fall for her – some willing to buy her off with a luxurious lifestyle. Manon is the original Material Girl, and cannot resist their offers...

Presented by Tom McKinney.

2pm
Manon Lescaut ….. Pretty Yende (soprano)
Le Chevalier des Grieux ….. Benjamin Bernheim (tenor)
Lescaut ….. Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Le Comte des Grieux ….. Roberto Tagliavini (bass)
Monsieur de Brétigny ….. Pierre Doyen (tenor)
Poussette ….. Cassandre Berthon (soprano)
Javotte ….. Alix Le Saux (mezzo-soprano)
Rosette ….. Jeanne Ireland (mezzo-soprano)
Innkeeper ….. Philippe Rouillon (baritone)
First Guard ….. Julien Joguet (bass)
Second Guard ….. Laurent Laberdesque (baritone)
Paris Opera Chorus
Paris Opera Orchestra
Dan Ettinger (conductor)