We are delighted to announce that Marcelina Román has joined the company of Gran Teatre del Liceu as cover for the role of Manon, one of the most vivid and emotionally compelling roles in opera.
This engagement offers Marcelina an exceptional opportunity to collaborate with leading conductors, directors, and world-class artists, further establishing her as one of the distinguished opera performers of her generation.
📍 Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
🎭 Role: Manon (cover)
A staging by Àlex Ollé originating at the Frankfurt Opera
“Manon is a heroine I believe in, and therefore, she cannot fail to win the audience’s heart. Why can’t there be two operas about Manon? A woman like Manon can have more than one lover.”
Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut, an opera in four acts premiered in 1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, is based on the work L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et Manon Lescaut (1731) by Abbé Prévost, which also inspired the opera Manon by Jules Massenet. “Manon is a heroine I believe in, and therefore, she cannot fail to win the audience’s heart. Why can’t there be two operas about Manon? A woman like Manon can have more than one lover,” Puccini himself wrote to his publisher.
Manon Lescaut was his third opera and the one that marked his first major success. It earned him lasting fame and marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, with whom he would write three masterpieces: La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), and Madama Butterfly (1904).
Dramma lirico in four acts.
Libretto by Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica with contributions from Marco Praga, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Puccini, Giulio Ricordi, and Giuseppe Adami, based on the work L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost.
- World premiere: 01/02/1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin
- Barcelona premiere: 05/04/1896 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Last performance at the Liceu: 22/06/2018
- Total performances at the Liceu: 72
