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into the inn to come to an arrangement with him over Manon. Manon remains outside and meets des Grieux. They fall in love and decide to escape to Paris with the help of the money that she has stolen from the old gentleman. Lescaut and the old gentleman come out of the inn, having made a bargain, and to their dismay see that Manon has disappeared. Monsieur GM tells
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Des Grieux is writing a letter to his father but Manon interrupts by declaring her love for him. Des Grieux goes to post the letter and in his absence
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from Paris. Among them are des Grieux, a young student, the wealthy
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Kenneth MacMillan had been thinking about choreographing a ballet about the story of Manon
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The gaoler of the penal colony awaits the arrival of the convicts from France. Manon has been deported to
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MacMillan used the designs of
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during the 1973â74 season. He left the title character open to differing dancer interpretations, but was himself sympathetic to her poverty, believing that it was her desire to escape this that underpinned her decisions.
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described the ballet as "an appalling waste of the lovely
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813:. London: Faber and Faber.
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870:List of compositions
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674:â Lescaut's mistress
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557:Grisélidis
487:Cendrillon
478:Cendrillon
471:Cendrillon
428:Grisélidis
359:MĂ©ditation
154:Background
1119:La Vierge
1095:Oratorios
1076:Cléopùtre
916:HĂ©rodiade
793:The Times
668:â Lescaut
638:La Vierge
523:Cléopùtre
513:Cléopùtre
386:La Vierge
339:Music in
331:The swamp
254:demimonde
1328:Manon 70
1242:Category
1165:Concerto
1020:Chérubin
686:â Gaoler
401:Chérubin
394:Chérubin
372:mélodies
308:The port
236:Synopsis
68:Premiere
1138:Ballets
1068:Panurge
1044:Bacchus
1036:ThérÚse
956:Werther
948:Le Mage
763:"Manon"
656:â Manon
577:Act III
327:Scene 3
316:Scene 2
304:Scene 1
289:Scene 2
277:Scene 1
261:Scene 2
245:Scene 1
116:, is a
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1382:(1894)
1374:(1893)
1366:(1884)
1358:(1856)
1350:(1836)
1339:Operas
1331:(1968)
1323:(1949)
1315:(1927)
1307:(1926)
1174:(1902)
1149:(1904)
1146:Cigale
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1122:(1880)
1114:(1875)
1106:(1873)
1087:(1922)
1084:Amadis
1079:(1914)
1071:(1913)
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1039:(1907)
1031:(1906)
1028:Ariane
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991:(1897)
983:(1894)
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967:(1894)
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943:(1889)
935:(1885)
932:Le Cid
927:(1884)
919:(1881)
911:(1877)
903:(1872)
895:(1867)
884:Operas
817:
502:Act II
447:Ariane
417:Le Cid
354:Elegie
273:Act II
179:Carmen
118:ballet
80:London
1398:Other
1363:Manon
1320:Manon
1296:Films
988:Sapho
964:ThaĂŻs
924:Manon
701:Notes
439:ThaĂŻs
378:Act I
349:Manon
198:Manon
114:Manon
98:Genre
50:Music
1060:Roma
815:ISBN
779:2014
693:and
356:and
146:and
72:1974
1285:'s
1111:Ăve
599:Ăve
564:Ăve
134:by
1431::
765:.
709:^
329:â
318:â
306:â
291:â
279:â
263:â
247:â
217:.
193:.
165:.
78:,
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