David Cozy <[log in to unmask]> wrote of Puccini's _Manon Lescaut_:

>seen or heard this work, and would like to give it a spin before attending.
>Thus I'd appreciate it if list opera-mavens would be good enough to
>recommend a version, if possible one with at least decent sound.

I suggest the Metropilitan Opera production from 1938(?) under Maurice de
Abravanel, with Bidu Sayao, Sydney Reiner...Sound is remastered but of
course also thereafter.

Mats Norrman
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