This opera originally premiered at the Teatro Regio, Turin, in 1893. The libretto was pieced together by five different librettists: Ruggero Leoncavallo, Marco Praga, Giuseppe Giacosa, Domenico Oliva, and Luigi Illica; however, no one was credited on the cover of the score as it was such a confused process. Puccini had been discouraged to choose any topic around Abbé Prevost’s novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut because Jules Massenet had already created such a successful opera on the topic. Puccini believed so much in the heroine Manon that he had to write an opera
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