![]() ![]() But in the end, the production’s alienating elements powerfully focus the attention on its characters’ struggles to assert their humanity and their passion in a shrill, material world. For sure, much of the “Manon Lescaut” I watched on Thursday is grotesque and bleak, the product of a director who doesn’t shy away from self-referential cleverness and textual liberties. Would there be graphic scenes of depraved sex? Neuenfels had dressed chorus members as giant padded rats. ![]() Was it rodents again? For a 2010 production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Bayreuth Festival, Mr. Netrebko, the Russian star soprano who was to sing the title role, pulled out late in the process, citing artistic differences with the director. ![]() MUNICH - What was it that so offended Anna Netrebko?Ī whiff of scandal preceded the opening of the director Hans Neuenfels’s new production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” here at the Bavarian State Opera this month, when Ms. ![]()
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