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Jonathan Kent's Manon Lescaut at Covent Garden: hard hitting staging, musically mixed

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“a broken boulevard of broken dreams”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 22 November 2016
Puccini, Manon Lescaut
The Royal Opera
Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor
Jonathan Kent, Director
Paul Brown, Set Designer
Sondra Radvanovsky, Manon Lescaut
Aleksandrs Antoņenko, Chevalier des Grieux
Levente Molnár, Lescaut
Eric Halfvarson, Geronte di Ravoir
Luis Gomes, Edmondo
Emily Edmonds, Musician
Aled Hall, Dancing master
Royal Opera Chorus
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