Massenet - Manon - Netrebko, Alagna - Vienna 2007Tv (ORF2, Austria) - 720*576 - German subs hardcoded - 2h47min.
Anna Netrebko (Manon), Roberto Alagna (Chevalier Des Grieux), Ain Anger (Graf Des Grieux), Adrian Eröd (Lescaut), Herwig Pecoraro (Guillot de Morfontaine), In-Sung Sim (Brétigny), Simina Ivan (Poussette), Sophie Marilley (Javotte), Juliette Mars (Rosette)
Cond. Bertrand de Billy
... This time, that man was not Rolando Villazon but tenor Roberto Alagna as Des Grieux, her lover. But if Netrebko was missing her almost perennial partner, she didn't show it.
She and Alagna were an example in animal magnetism, whether cuddling in bed in their simple Paris walk-up, clutching in church in the scene where she reclaims him from his life as a priest, or engaging in a final embrace as the stage turns dark, and the curtain prepares to fall... More at Washington Post
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