Manon Lescaut (Auber)

Manon Lescaut
Opéra comique by Daniel Auber
The composer c. 1860
LibrettistEugène Scribe
LanguageFrench
Based onManon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
Premiere
23 February 1856 (1856-02-23)
Salle Favart, Paris

Manon Lescaut is an opera or opéra comique in three acts by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and, like Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Massenet's Manon, is based on Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). Auber's version is nowadays the least-performed of the three.

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