“Manon is like any person who, strolling down the street one day, glances up at a second-story window and catches a glimpse of a different life,” explains Vincent Huguet about his staging of Massenet’s Manon, “a life that she suddenly desires ardently … and will do anything to have.” In his update of Prévost’s famous novel, Huguet demonstrates, with empathy and acuity, that Manon’s tale could really be anyone’s.

Genres

Cast

Pretty Yende

Manon

Ludovic Tézier

Lescaut

Roberto Tagliavini

Le Comte des Grieux

Rodolphe Briand

Guillot de Morfontaine