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MANON LESCAUT
2000 – Deutsche Grammophon
Running time: 120 min.
Artists: José Cura, Maria Guleghina, Lucio Gallo, Luigi Roni, Marco Berti.
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
CD audio and DVD audio available.
Recorded live June 1998 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
The raison d’etre for the recording is probably the fame of new super-dude-tenor José Cura, and he does not disappoint. The voice is a hefty spinto, dark in color but very bright at the top. …This is a set to return to often.
— Classics Today
Few have seemed so ideally suited to the impulsive, obsessed Des Grieux as is José Cura, with his ardent, exciting singing.
— The Daily Telegraph