Approximate duration: 3 hr.
Act 1: 45 min.
Intermission 25 min.
Act 2: 40 min.
Intermission 20 min.
Acts 3 and 4*: 50 min.
Carmen Solís Manon Lescaut
Enrique Ferrer Des Grieux
Milan Perišic Lescaut
Jorge Juan Morata Edmondo
Juan Carlos Esteve Geronte
Carles Ortiz Dance Master
Laura Obradors Musician
Quim Cornet Innkeeper
Andrés Rodríguez Lamplighter
Alejandro Chelet Sergeant
Lluís Vergés Commander
Musical direction Elio Orciuolo
Stage direction and costume design Carles Ortiz
Stage direction assistant Esteve Gorina
Stage design Jordi Galobart
Lighting Nani Valls
Costumes FOC
Chorus of the Associació d’Amics de l’Òpera de Sabadell
Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès
Opera Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Opera in four acts (with Catalan surtitles).
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Domenico Oliva, Marco Praga, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, the publisher Giulio Ricordi and Giacomo Puccini himself, based on the eponymous novel by the Abbé Prévost.
First performed at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 1 February 1893. First performed in Catalonia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 5 April 1896.
* Between acts 3 and 4 there will be a 6-minute interval for a scene change