MET Live in HD: MANON

Sunday, November 3, 2pm | Performing Arts Center SLO

To order tickets by phone, call (805) 756-4849. Box office times here.

A take on the quintessentially French tale of the beautiful young woman who is incapable of forsaking both love and luxury, Massenet’s Manon features one of the truly unforgettable, irresistible, and archetypal female characters in opera. While the story is firmly set in class and gender issues of the past, the character of Manon herself is timeless, convincing, and familiar.

Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Tenor Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing. Maurizio Benini conducts Massenet’s sensual score.

Sung in French with English, German, and Spanish subtitles.

ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 52 MINS, 2 intermissions

Sponsored by Francesca Fairbrother and Barbara Murphy