Des Grieux (Roberto Alagna) & Manon (Kristine Opolais) in Act IV of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (Photo: Ken Howard)Life Imitates Art
They were known in the classical music world as the “love couple.” One critic went so far as to portray their tempestuous on-again, off-again relationship as the operatic equivalent of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s rocky road to paparazzi ruin.
Now that the so-called love couple are officially divorced (for ...