Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera
Opening of the award-winning series of the Met: Live in HD programme, broadcast in more than 2.200 cinemas across 70 countries. The protagonists are the irresistible title character, Manon, a tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, and the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for her proves their undoing.
Conductor: Maurizio Benini.
Directed by Laurent Pelly.
Cast: Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Carlo Bosi, Artur Ruciński, Brett Polegato, Kwangchul Youn.
Running time 232’