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...The key players in Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel Manon Lescaut are an ugly bunch, but Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet contextualises their many sins, creating flawed characters of surprising depth....
...June 28 to 30; further information and tickets here July Performance ‘L’Histoire de Manon’, Teatro alla Scala Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 balletic adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 18th-century novel Manon Lescaut...
...Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 version of the story, back yet again to open the Royal Ballet’s new season, offers one of the great ballerina roles but gives its male stars plenty to chew on....
...Kenneth MacMillan’s retelling of Abbé Prévost’s cautionary tale of a young man brought low by an amoral young beauty has been a mainstay of the Royal Ballet repertoire since 1974....
...Manon Lescaut, Abbé Prévost’s seamy tale of youth and beauty led astray, was set to music that used an artful collage of Massenet’s work....
...In the 40 years since its premiere, Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon has become one of a select few British creations to have achieved cult status on the international ballet market....
...MilanRomeo and Juliet Kenneth MacMillan’s much-loved 1965 version of Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev’s score, opens at Scala on Friday....
...Perhaps the most notable example is Puccini’s opera of the same name but Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet, which premiered in 1974, fast established itself as an English National Ballet classic....
...and its book (based on the Abbé Prévost novel) is inadequate for a three-act ballet....
...There are exceptions, most notably Kenneth MacMillan, whose obsessive psychodramas often stem from fiction: his ballet Manon was based on Prevost’s 1731 story, which tugs the heroine between romantic and...
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