Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. Wikipedia
Composer: Jules Massenet
Librettists: Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille
First performance: January 19, 1884, National Theater of the Opera Comique, Paris, France
Adapted from: Manon Lescaut
Written: 1882
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