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Show 'Manon Lescaut' Met opera to air KGSU-FM is located at 90.1 megahertz on the radio dial. It is operated by students in the communications com-munications department at SUSC. Giacomo Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," the sixteenth broadcast of the 1980-81 Texaco-Metropolitan Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio broadcast season, will be heard live from the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday. The broadcast will begin at noon over KGSU-FM, the Southern Utah State College radio station. Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine will conduct. Teresa Zylis-Gara will be heard as Manon Lescaut; GiulianoCiannella as Des Grieux; Pablo Elvira as Lescaut; Renato CapecchiasGeronte; and Philip Creech as Ed-mondo. Ed-mondo. There will be three intermissions between the four acts of the opera. Boris Goldovsky will present a musical and dramatic analysis of "Manon Lescaut" during the first; Texaco's "Opera Quiz," with Edward Downes as quizmaster, will be aired during the second; and a "Singer's Roundtable" will be heard during the third. "Manon Lescaut," written when Puccini was 34, was his third opera and his first great success. suc-cess. At its premiere in Turin, Italy, on Feb. 1, 1893, Puccini had to appear 25 times during the acts to acknowledge the applause. Puccini's score for "Manon Lescaut" is full of youthful youth-ful exuberance. His characterization of Manon Lescaut is the predecessor to the exceedingly ex-ceedingly feminine and vulnerable Puccini heroines hero-ines Mimi, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Liu. |
