“Manon,” which premiered at the War Memorial Opera House on Friday, was choreographed in 1974 by former Royal Ballet Artistic Director Kenneth MacMillan based on a 1731 French novel. Centered ...

A drawing room where pasty-faced men awash in privilege and lust strut about displaying pouty mistresses like prize cattle. As Kenneth MacMillan’s “Manon” had its much-anticipated company premiere at ...

Written inside the lead ballerinas’ costumes in San Francisco Ballet’s “Manon” is a familiar name: “T. Rojo.” Tamara Rojo, who is entering her second repertory season as the Ballet’s artistic director ...

Manon’s production was undoubtedly stunning, like an animate Degas painting on loan from London’s Royal Ballet. The San Francisco opening boasted the original costumes from the ballet’s ...

The chance to see a classic full-length ballet for the first time is always a rare and welcome opportunity, so it’s especially exciting that San Francisco Ballet is kicking off its 2025 Repertory ...

Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when Monsieur G.M. offers Manon a life of luxury as his ...

Reece Clarke, the principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and Opera, played the role of the devilishly handsome Onegin on opening night on Wednesday evening to a full house with his counterpart Marianela ...

When San Francisco Ballet presented its “British Icons ... with the company premiere of MacMillan’s “Manon,” it will represent one of five ballets by British choreographers to be ...

Manon is coming to Den Norske Opera in March ... 1731 – but critics were disapproving after the premiere with The Royal Ballet in London in 1974. The heroine was immoral and what exactly ...