Puccini's Manon Lescaut
1893 · Work
Puccini's third opera, on the same Prévost novel Massenet had set nine years before, is a triumph in Turin and makes him Verdi's heir apparent.
On these timelines: Classical Music, Arts and Thoughts, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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