Manon [Opéra national de Paris]

Directed by Vincent Huguet

With Pretty Yende, Benjamin Bernheim, Ludovic Tézier, Roberto Tagliavini and Rodolphe Briand

“Manon is like any person who, strolling down the street one day, glances up at a second-story window and catches a glimpse of a different life,” explains Vincent Huguet about his staging of Massenet’s Manon, “a life that she suddenly desires ardently … and will do anything to have.” In his update of Prévost’s famous novel, Huguet demonstrates, with empathy and acuity, that Manon’s tale could really be anyone’s.