Composer
Librettists
Based On
the novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost
Company
San Francisco Opera Association Touring
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Venue
Shrine Auditorium
Season
1954
Language
French
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Choreography by
Cast
Manon Lescaut
Chevalier des Grieux
Count des Grieux, his father
Lescaut, Manon's cousin
Guillot Morfontaine, a roué
De Brétigny, a nobleman
Poussette
Javotte
Rosette
Innkeeper
Maid
First Guard
Second Guard
First Traveler
Second Traveler
Attendant at St. Sulpice
Sergeant
Dancer(s)
(see notes)
Show Dates
Time and Place
1721; Amiens, Paris, Havre
Scenes
Act I -- Courtyard of an Inn, Amiens
Act II -- Boudoir, in Manon's House, Paris
Act III, Scene 1 -- Cours La Reine
Scene 2 -- Anteroom in Seminary of Saint Sulpice
Act IV, Scene 1 -- Gambling Salon, Hotel Transylvanie
Scene 2 -- Road to Havre
Notes
The curtain time is a guess; records preserved everything but those. Principal dancers: Nancy Johnson Sally Bailey Gordon Paxman Conrad Ludlow Danseuses Etoiles: Nancy Johnson Sally Bailey Premiers Danseurs: Gordon Paxman Conrad Ludlow Maitre de Ballet: Ron Ross Corps de Ballet: Bene Arnold Christine Bering Lorene Batchelor Gloria Cancilla Constance Coler Fiona Fuerstner Louise Lawler Virginia Johnson