Le portrait de Manon

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Operas by Jules Massenet

La grand'tante (1867)
Don César de Bazan (1872)
Le roi de Lahore (1877)
Hérodiade (1881)
Manon (1884)
Le Cid (1885)
Esclarmonde (1889)
Le mage (1891)
Werther (1892)
Thaïs (1894)
Le portrait de Manon (1894)
La Navarraise (1894)
Sapho (1897)
Cendrillon (1899)
Grisélidis (1901)
Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (1902)
Chérubin (1903)
Ariane (1906)
Thérèse (1907)
Bacchus (1909)
Don Quichotte (1910)
Roma (1912)
Panurge (1913)
Cléopâtre (1914)
Amadis (1922)
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Le portrait de Manon is an opera in one act by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Georges Boyer. It was first performed at the Opéra Comique in Paris on May 8, 1894. It is a sequel to Massenet's 1884 opera Manon, widely regarded to be his masterpiece. Le portrait de Manon, however, hardly achieved even a fraction of the original's acclaim and is rarely performed today.

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Role Voice type Premiere Cast, May 8, 1894
(Conductor: - )
Des Grieux baritone
Tiberge tenor
Jean mezzo-soprano
Aurore soprano

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