Metropolitan Opera Live from New York: The MET Opera season continues with a new production of Manon, opera by Jules Massenet .
The story takes place in France. People gather for the arrival of the coach to Paris, among them Lescaut. He is waiting for his young cousin Manon, who is on her way to enter a convent.
The coach arrives and Manon expresses her exuberant joy about her first journey away from home. Enchanted by her, Guillot ( a noble man) offers to take Manon to Paris, but she and his companions laugh at him.
The young Chevalier des Grieux arrives too late to catch the coach, which has already left for Paris. He falls in love with Manon at first sight, and when she tells him that it is her fondness for pleasure that has led her family to send her to a convent, he is determined to rescue her from such a fate. They escape together…
Starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot.
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