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| Manon Lescaut |
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| Dramatic tenor role. A student, in love with Manon. |
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| 1926 |
| 1927 |
| 1949 |
| 1950 |
| 1956 |
| 1967 |
| 1974 |
| 1983 |
| 1988 |
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| Chevalier des Grieux |
| San Francisco Opera Chevalier des Grieux History |
| Giorgio Merighi |
| Ermanno Mauro |
| Robert Ilosfalvy |
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| Aria Data Base for Chevalier des Grieux |
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| 1927-The more heroic aspects of Des Grieux seemed the best in Martinelli's singing. |
| 1950-Del Monaco was an exciting find. His little figure moved with brisk vigor. His eyes flashed. His voice sometimes belloed but there wasn't a question about the eclat of his presence and the free-rignging tone of his upper register and the dulcet seductiveness of his lower tones. |
| 1974-Giorgio Merighi was not a magnetic actor, but a tenor with a quite georgeous, easy-to-take voice. Hauntingly vibrant, it suggested a lyric Corelli or Francesco Merli. |
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| 2006-The composer was so inexperienced, he overwrote his orchestration, so that the poor tenor not only has multiple difficult high notes but has to sing over a colorful wash of sound. With Donald Runnicles in the pit, giving no quarter as usual, Didyk responded heroically./ Review |
| 1956-Jussi Bjoerling You Tube |
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| 1983 Peter Dvorsky Video - You Tube |
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