Manon og Kilden

This outstanding concert performance of Manon Lescaut with Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov was the absolute highlight of the 2016's Salzburg Festival – a moment of operatic glory, captured live for this unique release.
Anna excelled herself and fascinated the audience with the perfection of her exceptional voice, her unrivaled interpretation and her devotion to this very part – she is the Manon Lescaut of our time. While Verismo already features the aria "In quelle trine morbide" and the fourth act of Manon Lescaut in a breathtaking studio-version, documenting her great passion to this work, the complete recording of Manon Lescaut will be a great addition to Anna's fans and opera lovers alike.

Jules Massenet - Manon
Anna Netrebko / Rolando Villazón / Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim
MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p, 1.78:1 | DTS-HD 5.1, PCM 5.1 & PCM 2.0 @ 24Bit/48kHz | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 00440 073 4477 GH | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Opera, HiDef | 5% Recovery Info

Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, and Jules Massenet’s Manon would seem to be a match made in heaven. (…) The spectacular and ultra-colorful Paterson production looks great on Blu-ray, and all of his artful choreography, sets, and costumes contribute to keeping Massenet’s very long score alive. Audio formats are PCM stereo and PCM and DTS 5.1 surround sound. The surround options contain a slightly larger than usual contribution from the rear speakers that totally immerses you in the listening experience in high-resolution sound. Needless to say, Blu-ray offers visual splendors that are not wasted in this production. (…) Very highly recommended!

The first of Puccini's operas to become popular, Manon Lescaut is a study of a composer reaching his youthful maturity. Each act is a little less flabby than the one that came before it. By the time we reach Act Four, Puccini has built up a full head of steam, and there's not much distance to traverse between Manon's death on a plain near New Orleans and Mimi's death in a garret in Paris. To get there, we start with an Act One that has its moments (notably the tenor's "Donna non vidi mai," although Puccini cannibalized it from an earlier work), an Act Two that has the heartbreakingly simple "In quelle trine morbide" and a whiz-bang climax, and an Act Three that is full of pathos – just like the equivalent act in La Bohème, but without the great set-pieces…

Raymond Tuttle

C’est l’histoire d’une fille…
Manon vit avec sa mère à Los Angeles. Son père, elle ne le voit que deux fois par an. Durant l’adolescence tout bascule. Une menace de suicide, un séjour en internat pendant son anniversaire et deux rencontres avec la police plus tard, elle fait le mur une nuit et rencontre des ennuis plus grands qu’elle. …