Dramma lirico in quattro atti-Manon Lescaut is the fi rst volume of the series ?The operas of Giacomo Puccini? - Critical Edition - in collaboration with Archivio storico Ricordi and Fondazione Simonetta Puccini. It makes available the three main versions of the opera thathave survived in various sources: an 1893 version with the original Act I finale the fi rst version of Manon?s Act IV aria and the uncut version of the fi nal duet in Act IV; a ?midcareer? version imagined by Puccini in the fi rst decade of thenew century when he sanctioned the almost complete omission of Manon?s Act IV aria; and fi nally the last version that Puccini lived to approve with Manon?saria restored albeit with a revised literary text. The volume is introduced by a preface to the Puccini Critical Edition an historical introduction a detailed description of the opera?s many sources and a lengthy critical commentary whichdiscusses numerous problematic details in the musical text.
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Manon Lescaut