Theatre· Paris
Manon Lescaut
**Manon Lescaut** is an opera by Giacomo Puccini (based on Abbé Prévost's 18th-century French novel) that tells the tragic story of Manon, a young woman torn between love and luxury. She elopes with the student Des Grieux, but her desire for wealth leads her into the arms of a rich older man—ultimately resulting in her arrest for prostitution, deportation to America, and death in the Louisiana des