The title character declares that she cannot love her patron in Affe, madamigella, and is arrested thanks to that man, Geronte.
This work opens with Tra voi, belle sung to flirt with a group of girls. The title character declares that she cannot love her patron in Affe, madamigella, and is arrested thanks to that man, Geronte. One man convinces a ship's captain to let him be exiled in Guardate, pazzo son!, but after fleeing into a wasteland outside (*) New Orleans, the title character dies in the arms of that man, her lover des Grieux. For 10 points, name this opera based on a novel by the Abbé Prévost, a work by Puccini.
This work opens with Tra voi, belle sung to flirt with a group of girls.
{Manon Lescaut}