Tonight is our final rehearsal for Manon Lescaut before we debut the show on Friday night. Tonight will be the test to see if we have everything ready and how an audience will react. We expect around 1,500 students from local colleges, middle schools and high schools to attend. It is exciting to do a show that has never been performed here before, and you would think that after over 40 years we would have done every Puccini out there, but there still are a few that we haven’t performed. I hope that we can do La Fanciulla del West some day but, like Manon Lescaut, Faciulla is a work that is not often presented by companies the size of Opera Grand Rapids. A successful Manon Lescaut may lead to more variety in our repertoire. I sure hope it does.
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