Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini / Arr. William Francis McBeth

Inventory: #HL 03777543
UPC: 884088775506
Publisher Code: S549CB

Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva, based on the 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Turin, at the Teatro Regio.

The Intermezzo, also entitled "The Journey to Le Havre," comes at the end of Act II of the opera.

Besetzungsliste / Instrumentation:

Full Score
Flute I-II-III
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Piano (or Harp)
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum