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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