The Metropolitan Opera Puccini Manon Lescaut (2016)

Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccinis early hit Richard Eyres elegant production which sets the action in 1940s occupied France was one of the highlights of the Mets 201516 season Massimo Cavalletti as Manons brother and Brindley Sherratt as her aging admirer costar and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium