She wants love. She wants diamonds. She gets tragedy. Opera's most relatable mess.
The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
Acting
Opolais and Kaufmann's chemistry actually makes you forget it's opera.
Direction
Kent's staging turns 1730s France into a fever dream of mirrors and rot.
Production
That Act II gold dress deserves its own billing.
Director
Jonathan Haswell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2015 Royal Opera House production was Opolais and Kaufmann's first shared Manon, sparking rumors that spilled into tabloids.
Puccini fought his publisher to premiere this instead of 'La bohème'—young composers, take note of stubbornness.
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