Passion and flight end in the solitude of the desert with Manon’s heartrending ‘Ah, non voglio morir!’. This work is an example of an ‘adventure opera’ in which the heroine and her lover, Des Grieux, ...

It was guaranteed that the greatest of conductors, Edinburgh-born Donald Runnicles, would know exactly how to work with Puccini's immaculate sense of dramatic timing in tandem with the Deutsche Oper ...