Opera «Manon Lescaut»

The story follows the fate of Manon and Des Grieux, two young people swept up in an intense and contradictory love. She oscillates between passion and the desire for a luxurious life; he remains faithful despite the sacrifices. Between escapes, wrong decisions and a society that judges without mercy, the two embark on a journey that inevitably moves towards tragedy.

The staging moves the action into contemporary spaces: bus stations, nightclubs and cells before deportation, where love appears marked by abuse and vulnerability. Urban costumes and the set turn the narrative into a reflection on exploitation and desire in the contemporary world, without losing the emotional force of the score.

Musically, the work presents some of the most intense moments in the operatic repertoire, from the passionate «Donna non vidi mai» to the desolate final aria “Sola, perduta, abbandonata”. Soprano Asmik Grigorian embodies a fragile and luminous Manon alongside tenor Joshua Guerrero, in a Gran Teatre del Liceu season finale marked by dramatic intensity and vocal beauty.