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There s plenty to do this weekend March 1-3. First Run Theater will showcase a festival of new plays, plus, you can catch comedian Adele Givens, rockers Three Dog Night or
Gina Galati’s wonderful Winter Opera company continues its 17th season with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. This work, which opened in 1893, was Puccini’s first great hit. It was rather daring of Puccini to present this piece, based as it was on a novel that had already been adapted to opera by two other composers first by Daniel Aubert (1856), and then in a hugely successful work by Jules Massenet 1884. But it was an archetypically operatic story an emotional tug-of-war between a rich old man and a poor young one for the affections of a beautiful young woman (viz. La Traviata, La Rondine, Don Pasquale, et alia).