Manon

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Katseye member Manon Bannerman is taking a temporary break to focus on her health and wellbeing, the group has announced.

From BBC

Heartbeat Opera’s most recent adaptation of a classic work, which just concluded a two-week run at the Space at Irondale, is an engaging 100-minute, musical-theater-inspired version of Jules Massenet’s “Manon.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.

From The Wall Street Journal

The snappy translation is deftly tailored to the music of the opera’s many famous earworm arias: Manon’s gavotte, “Profitons bien de la jeunesse,” becomes “Let me sparkle brightly while I may”; the Chevalier’s despairing “Ah! fuyez, douce image” is “Go away, dreams of love.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Emma Grimsley’s soprano had the necessary brightness and coloratura flexibility for Manon, but her monochromatic timbre missed the character’s pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal