Character Descriptions from Musicals, Plays and Operas

Ensemble

Manon Lescaut

  innkeeper sleazy money-hungry deceptive 

Lead

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage morality religious vocation love relationships affair romance vocation clergy vicar second son moral kind caring lyric baritone 

Lead

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage social class morality love relationships manners affair romance cousin sister wife moral abused lyric mezzo 

Lead

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage social class morality love affair romance brother fashionable lyric tenor 

Lead

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations 19th century regency england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage morality love relationships romance vain spoiled cruel affair sister lyric soprano 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage social class manners morality religious vocation love relationships cruel abusive manipulative widow lyric soprano 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage morality religious vocation love relationships affair romance fun spoiled sister vain cousin lyric mezzo 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy social class marriage relationships romance hypochondriac recluse mother wife lyric contralto character contralto 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage social class morality religious vocation love relationships affair romance sister fashionable coloratura soprano 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage arranged marriage morality love affair romance boring wealthy bluster lyric tenor 

Supporting

Mansfield Park

  21st century opera austen adaptations regency 18th century england british aristocracy marriage morality slave trade father lord aristocrat gentry rich wealthy lyric baritone 

Lead

Marat/Sade

  journalist writer physician theorist idealist debate exhausted confused weary defensive murdered death 2m scenes