METAMORPHOSES OF MANON

• Authors: Blaho V.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The author in his study deals with the opera fates of a tale which was published as the seventh part of memoires of Abbe Prevost 'Manon Lescaut' (Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut). It is interesting that the story of Manon and her knight did not specially impressed dramatists, on the contrary - it has landed and up to these days is seated on the throne of the musical theatre stages. The very first event was a ballet by Fromenthal Halevy, after it Scribe wrote a libretto for a composer Daniel Auber for an opera (1856), but until now the story has been alive in the opera stage mainly thanks to Massenet´s 'Manon' (1884) and Puccini 'Manon Lescaut' (1893). The author studies the difference in approach to the topic and compares the artistic adaptation of the same inspiration by two great personalities. He characterizes in detail both works of art, and subsequently deals with their theatrical fate - while alongside with Slovak staging - he doesn't neglect a wider European space, and describes meaningful staging of Puccini opera abroad (director Robert Carsen made a production of 'Manon Lescaut' over the course of a few years on Royal Flamisch Opera in Antverps, in Vienna State Opera), or the production of Massenet's 'Manon' in Bratislava (1980). He becomes more familiar with the background of Vienna staging by Jean- Pierre Ponell from 1983 ( with the Slovak singer Edita Gruber in the main role), or the Paris staging by Gilbert Deflo (with Renee Fleming) from 2001. A traditionally and contemporary true staging of 'Manon' was attemped in the theatre of Milan Teatro la Scala also by a director Nicolas Joel in 2006. The fact that 'Manon' can be produced also by using other means than pieta is proven by two staging from 2007: one is from Vienna (directed by Andrej Serban), one from Berlin (directed by Vincent Paterson). In both cases it is about the so called updated understanding - meaning transferring the period closer to current times.

Keywords

EN

'MANON LESCAUT' - OPERA; ARTISTIC ADAPTATION OF 'MANON'

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 38-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Blaho V.

• V. Blaho, Kabinet divadla a filmu SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04658908