Movie Details
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Opéra National de Paris
Opéra national de Paris: L'histoire de Manon on the Web:Official Website
Opéra national de Paris: L'histoire de Manon
"Kenneth MacMillan's acclaimed tragic ballet is a modern masterpiece"Movie
Audience Score
DirectorCédric Klapisch
2 hr 35 minMusic
Plot
First performed in 1974 and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this production is the second in this year’s season following The Royal Ballet’s. In Regency Paris, bourgeois society gorges itself on luxury and easy pleasures. Carried off in this whirlwind, the sensual yet naïve Manon is unable to resist temptation and she drags down the faithful Des Grieux with her in her fall.
