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Manon

Manon( )
Author: Massenet, Jules
Editor: John, Nicholas
Translator: Edmund, Tracey
Based on a novel by: Prévost, Abbé
Series title:English National Opera Guides
ISBN:978-0-7145-4041-2
Publication Date:Jun 1984
Publisher:Alma Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail--with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto is included in both the original language and in a modern singing...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Opera
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 Inches
Book Weight:0.812 Pounds
Author Biography
Massenet, Jules (Author)
Abbé Prévost, 1697 - 1763 Novelist Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles was born in Hesdin, and he was educated there at a Jesuit school. He was ordained a priest in the Benedictine Order in 1726 and abandoned the order two years later, living several years in England and Holland.

Prévost is best known for "Memoires et Aventures d'un Homme de Qualite" (Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, 7 vol., 1728-1731). The seventh volume is "Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" (1731), which is popularly known as Manon Lescaut. The novel chronicles the tragic romance of a young aristocrat and a courtesan and was inspired by the operas Manon (1884), by Jules Massenet, and Manon Lescaut (1893), by Giacomo Puccini. His novels with English themes, as well as his translations of the British novelist Samuel Richardson, encouraged French interest in English literature. Those titles included "Pamela" (1742) and Clarissa" (1751).

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