English: Puccini - Manon Lescaut - Setting of act I at the Metropolitan
Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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SETTING OF ACT I AT THE METROPOLITAN (Italian) MANON LESCAUT (Man-on Les-koh) OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Music by Giacomo Puccini, the libretto (founded on Abbe Prevosts novel) beingmainly the work of the composer and a committee of friends. English version byMowbray Marras. First presented at Turin, February 1, 1893, with Cremonini, Ferrani andMoro. Produced at Covent Garden, May 14, 1894; at Trieste, June 10, 1893; at Hamburg,November 7, 1893. First performance in France at Nice, March 19, 1906, at Marseilles (notgiven at Paris until 1910); at Madrid, November 4, 1893. First performance in America atBuenos Aires, June 9, 1893 ; in the United States at Grand Opera House, Philadelphia, inEnglish, August 29, 1894, with Selma, Kronold and Montegriffo. Given in French by asmall traveling company at Wallacks Theatre, May 27, 1898, and at the Tivoli Opera House,San Francisco, in 1905. Produced at Wallacks Theatre, New York, May 27, 1898, by theRoyal Italian Grand Opera Company. First important New
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