“Prima delle prime” podcast: Manon, 13 June 2012

25 June 2012

If you missed our “Prima delle prime” conference held on June 13, 2012 at La Scala’s boxes foyer, you can now listen to the audio recording of the lecture “Le malie della femme fatale”, in which Italian musicologist and Stage performance professor Laura Cosso speaks about Jules Massenet’s Manon. For the audio content, see below on this page. From the libertine novel of the Abbé […]

“Massenet’s Manon: a melancholic femme fatale”

12 June 2012

On the eve of the “Prima delle prime” conference dedicated to Jules Massenet’s Manon, we asked Laura Cosso, guest speaker at tomorrow’s conference, to draw an introductive picture of the opera. Massenet’s Manon is an 1884 adaptation from a novel by French writer abbé Prévost, which in 1893 would have inspired also Giacomo Puccini’s Manon […]

“Prima delle prime” series: Jules Massenet’s “Manon”

8 June 2012

On Wednesday June 13, 2012, from 6pm, in the Arturo Toscanini foyer at La Scala theatre, the ninth appointment of the “Prima delle prime” public talks will be dedicated to Jules Massenet’s Manon. On this occasion, musicologist and Stage performance professor at the Conservatorio di Milano Laura Cosso will give a lecture titled “Le malìe […]