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Manon (San Diego)

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Based On

the novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost

Company
San Francisco Opera Association Touring
Location
San Diego, CA
Venue
San Diego Fox Theatre
Season
1958
Language
French

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Costumers

Cast

Manon Lescaut
Chevalier des Grieux
Count des Grieux, his father
Lescaut, Manon's cousin
Guillot Morfontaine, a roué
De Brétigny, a nobleman
Poussette
Rosette
Innkeeper
First Guard
Second Guard
Attendant at St. Sulpice
Sergeant

Show Dates

Time and Place

1721; Amiens, Paris, Havre

Scenes

Act I -- Courtyard of an inn, Amiens
Act II, Scene 1 -- Boudoir in Manon's house, Paris
Scene 2 -- Anteroom in Seminary of Saint Sulpice
Act III, Scene 1 -- Gambling Salon, Hotel Transylvanie
Scene 2 -- Road to Le Havre

Notes

Presented by the San Diego Opera Guild

Corps de Ballet

Major intermission after Act II