Oeuvre: Le Portrait de Manon

L'Opéra de Marseille présente la suite de la Manon de Massenet : Le portrait de Manon. Petite pépite méconnue interprétée par de jeunes chanteurs prometteurs. 

Massenet, Smyth and Rota are unlikely bedfellows, but in the Guildhall School's Autumn production, a one-act opera by each contributed to a most convincing triple bill, all set around the La Scala Picturehouse in the 1920s.

Opera school productions are designed to provide experience for their students and showcase their talents to an audience sprinkled with casting directors. Clearly, the Guildhall School have decided to extract maximum value from their current production by staging not one opera but three, with different casts and even different orchestral musicians.