His wife and family hastened to Paris, and were with him when he died, aged seventy. Rimasta sola, Manon sogna il lusso e il piacere in cui vivono le tre giovani donne, rattristandosi di essere destinata al convento (Voyons, Manon, plus de chimères!/Vieni, Manon, smetti di sognare!). Lescaut enters intent on creating a scene and accompanied by de Brétigny, who is masquerading as a fellow-guardsman. Manon arrives with des Grieux who declares his total love: ("The elder des Grieux enters, and tells his son that, while he will intercede on his behalf, he will do nothing to save Manon. Arrivent Lescaut et ses amis. Las dos representadas con más … i Don Quichotte (Monte Karlo, 1910). Eleganti, signori, borghesi di Amiens e di Parigi, viaggiatori e viaggiatrici, facchini e postiglioni, venditori e venditrici, devote, giocatori,imbroglioni, croupiers. Manon lämnar deras gemensamma bostad. Poi bussano violentemente alla porta, Manon cerca di dissuaderlo dall’andare ad aprire ma non gli spiega il motivo, così, des Grieux scherzosamente le promette che manderà subito via gli scocciatori ma, appena apre la porta, viene rapito. De får besök av Lescaut och de Brétigny som förklarar att han älskar Manon och berättar att des Grieux far kommer att försöka skilja henne från hans son med våld samma kväll. His pupils included Massenet's growing reputation did not prevent a contretemps with the The death of Ambroise Thomas in February 1896 made vacant the post of director of the Conservatoire. Han köper hennes tystnad genom att lova att hon får ett liv i lyx med honom. For other uses, see Efter hans død er de fleste gået i glemmebogen undtagen Manon og Werther og til dels fx Thais og Esclarmonde . Ritroviamo Guillot, Brétigny, Lescaut, Javotte, Poussette et Rosette e i due giovani (Manon e Des Grieux), all'Hôtel de Transylvanie, ritrovo di scommesse dove si gioca d'azzardo. "Fuller Maitland was equally antipathetic to many contemporary composers, being similarly hostile to Balthazar, p. 213; Riding and Dunton-Downer, p. 264; and Smillie, Thomson. After the two visitors depart, Manon appears to vacillate between accepting de Brétigny's offer and warning des Grieux. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4). Ősbemutatójára 1884. január 19-én került sor a párizsi Opéra Comique-ban.A Werther mellett ez Massenet egyik leggyakrabban játszott operája. Manon è un'opera lirica in cinque atti e sei quadri di Jules Massenet, composta su libretto di Henri Meilhac e Philippe Gille e soggetto tratto dal romanzo Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut dell'abate Antoine François Prévost Massenet's musical career was briefly interrupted by the After order was restored, Massenet returned to Paris where he completed his first large-scale stage work, an opéra comique in four acts, Massenet was a prolific composer; he put this down to his way of working, rising early and composing from four o'clock in the morning until midday, a practice he maintained all his life.This period was an early high point in Massenet's career.

Fra Manon e Des Grieux sboccia un amore a prima vista (Duo: Ah! Poi induce la ragazza a seguirlo abbandonando il giovane Des Grieux. Among his students were By the time of his death, Massenet was regarded by many critics as old-fashioned and unadventurous although his two best-known operas remained popular in France and abroad. Des Grieux, freed by his father's intervention, and a penitent Lescaut, now his ally, wait to waylay the convoy in which Manon is being marched to the port. The would-be rescuers recognize the hopelessness of attacking so strong an escort, but Lescaut succeeds in bribing their sergeant to allow Manon to stay behind till evening.

Le ultime parole spirate da Manon che concludono l’opera sono: "Et c’est là l’historie de Manon Lescaut... / Così finisce la storia di Manon Lescaut..." "Tristan und Isolde at the ROH, Werther at Opera North", Indeed, one can but marvel that so gifted a musician, who lacked neither individuality nor skill, should have so utterly succeeded in throwing away his gifts.