Manon Lescaut (Auber) - Roles

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, 23 February 1856
(Conductor: - )
Manon Lescaut coloratura soprano Marie Cabel
Des Grieux tenor Henri Puget
Le Marquis d'Hérigny baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure
Lescaut, Manon's cousin tenor Beckers
Marguerite, Manon's friend soprano Léocadie Lemercier
Gervais, her fiancé tenor Jourdan
Madame Bancelin cabaret hostess mezzo-soprano Mme Félix
Monsieur Durozeau commissaire baritone Lemaire
Monsieur Renaud Inspector baritone Nathan
Zaby, a young slave soprano Mlle Bélia
A Sergeant bass Duvernoy
Two bourgeois
Court nobles, Bourgeois of the Boulevard du Temple, Soldiers, Male and female workers;
Inhabitants of New Orleans, negroes, Colonial soldiers

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