What is Manon?
'''''Manon''''' is a French [[opera]] in five acts by [[Jules Massenet]], first performed at the [[Opéra-Comique]] in [[Paris]], on March 19, 1884, [[libretto]] by Henri Meilhac et Philippe Gile, after the Abbé Antoine-François Prévost's ''L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut''. An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas. == Principal roles and voice types == * Manon - [[soprano]] * Chevalier des Grieux - [[tenor]] * Lescaut - [[baritone]] * Comte des Grieux - [[bass (vocal range)|bass]] * Guillot de Morfontaine - tenor * Monsieur de Brétigny - baritone == Sources == * ''The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta'', James Anderson, Vikings Books, 1989. {{music-stub}} [[Category:1880s operas]]