Manon

Music by

Jules Massenet

Opernhaus Zürich

Zürich, CH

2025

Wednesday
September
24
19:00 Saturday
September
27
19:00 Friday
October
03
19:30 Tuesday
October
07
19:00 Friday
October
10
19:30

Cast

Manon Lescaut		Lisette Oropesa
Le Chevalier des Grieux		Benjamin Bernheim
Lescaut		Yannick Debus
Le Comte des Grieux		Nicolas Testé
Guillot de Morfontaine		Daniel Norman
Monsieur de Brétigny		Andrew Moore
Poussette		Yewon Han
Javotte		Rebeca Olvera
Rosette		Karima El Demerdasch

Conductor

Sesto Quatrini

Director

Floris Visser

Set Designer

Dieuweke van Reij

Lighting

Alex Brok

Choreography

Pim Veulings

Chorusmaster

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturge

Kathrin Brunner

About

Manon desires a life of luxury. Des Grieux, a student, tries to escape his father's influence; with Manon, he hopes for a freer life. The uncompromising nature of their desires proves to be the young couple's downfall. "Manon" overnight made Jules Massenet one of France's leading opera composers of the Belle Époque. Lisette Oropesa is one of the outstanding lyric coloratura sopranos of her generation. The international career of French tenor Benjamin Bernheim began as a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich.

Performance History

Lisette has given 12 performances as Manon Lescaut.