Edita Gruberova · Francisco Araiza · Pierre Thau · Hans Helm
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Adam Fischer, conductor
Staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Directed by Brian Large

STEREO: PCM / SURROUND: DTS 5.0
Picture Format: 4:3
Subtitles: French/German/English/Spanish/Chinese
Eine Produktion des ORF aus der Wiener Staatsoper

* Filmed live at the Vienna State Opera in December 1983, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s elegant staging of Manon captures all the pathos of Massenet’s masterpiece.

* Adam Fischer leads an all-star cast featuring the incomparable Edita Gruberova in the title role and the brilliant Francisco Araiza as Le chevalier des Grieux.

* Massenet’s Manon was immensely successful from the outset, and it has remained a hit ever since its world premiere in Paris in 1884.

R E V I E W S

“[Gruberova] has spoilt her audience with her irresistible high notes and crystalline coloratura. . . the casualness with which she played the coquette. . . culminating in her ensnarement of her beau, who was on the verge of entering the priesthood.” -- Süddeutsche Zeitung

“Araiza brought to the part the sensual timbre of his tenor, while enthralling the house with lightning-quick changes from brilliant high notes to unusually delicate diminuendos that died away to nothing.” -- Süddeutsche Zeitung