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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (Italian: Gli amori di Manon Lescaut) is a 1954 French-Italian historical melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Myriam Bru, Franco Interlenghi and Roger Pigaut.
Destined for the convent, the young Manon falls head over heels in love with a handsome stranger and decides to flee with him. Yet aspiring to a life of wealth and luxury, she ends up throwing herself into the arms of a rich nobleman.
[1] Plot summary. Manon Lescaut and Her Lover, Des Grieux, Are Set Ashore in Louisiana (1896), by Albert Lynch. Seventeen-year-old Des Grieux, studying philosophy at Amiens, comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon on her way to a convent.
The Lovers of Manon Lescout: Directed by Mario Costa. With Myriam Bru, Franco Interlenghi, Roger Pigaut, Marisa Merlini. In the reign of King Louis XV, a handsome student, Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin Manon just when she goes to the convent of Amiens to take the veil.
Manon Lescaut at the Met Manon Lescaut premiered at the Met in 1907, with Lina Cavalieri and Enrico Caruso as the lovers. Puccini himself was in the audience, having disembarked from his ship only hours before, on his first trip to New York. The Met also gave the Paris premiere of the opera on tour in 1910, with Arturo Toscanini conducting
1 de feb. de 2018 · After a party, in which Geronte shows off Manon, Des Grieux is brought in by Lescaut to please his sister. The two lovers reconcile but are caught by Geronte and his men. At Le Havre Manon is set alongside a number of other imprisoned women whose destiny is the new world.
17 de jun. de 2014 · Manon is on her way to a convent when she meets the young student Des Grieux. The pair fall in love and escape to Paris, but when the elderly Geronte offers Manon a life of wealth and luxury, her head is turned.
