RUSSIAN SOPRANO Anna Netrebko will star in The Met’s production of Manon which will be broadcast live via satellite to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark this weekend.
Massenet’s comic epic Manon will be broadcast on Saturday April 7 at 5pm. The cast will feature Netrebko as the eponymous heroine and Polish tenor Piotr Beczala as des Grieux. The performance is conducted by Fabio Luisi, the Met’s principal conductor. The director is Laurent Pelly.
Manon tells the story of a young nun to be who elopes with a count while being escorted to her convent, and later leaves the count shortly to become the mistress of an older, richer, man.
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