Manon Lescaut

Director Robert Carsen relocates the action to a skyscraper and shopping mall environment, thus underlining the timelessness and universality of the fatal seduction mechanisms of status symbols and the spotlight as well as contemporary loneliness. If one thinks of the large number of young people today, even children, who are ensnared by marketing strategists and cleverly trimmed to the apparent importance of brand products and self-presentation, the immense topicality of this production becomes clear!