Opera in four acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and Italian libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Domenico Oliva, Marco Praga, Giusepee Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Puccini & Giulio Ricordi.

The young cavalier Des Grieux falls in love at first sight with Manon, who has just got off a carriage with her brother Lescaut. But the elderly & influential Geronte also has desires for her and he prepares to kidnap her; but the two youngsters, warned by Edmondo, escape together to Paris to evade Geronte.

+ Info: Teatro Pérez Galdós