Puccini | Manon Lescaut | DVD

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer, born on 22 December 1858 in Lucca, Tuscany, and died on 29 November 1924 in Brussels, Belgium. He has been described as the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi.

This DVD of Puccini's Manon Lescaut was released by Sony Classical on 8 October 2015. It is a single disc in Italian, region 0 for all regions, and presents the Royal Opera House production by Jonathan Kent, presented in June 2014. Kristīne Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann sing the roles of Manon Lescaut and Chevalier des Grieux, with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano. The disc also includes a video feature titled Who is Manon Lescaut.