The story of the doomed heroine Manon Lescaut has inspired more than one composer, but is perhaps most passionately portrayed in Puccini's opera, written just ten years after Massenet's Manon. A grim story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death, it calls for dramatic, forceful performance, and gets the full treatment here in this 2014 studio recording starring Andrea Bocelli. Now Bocelli brings the full weight of his emotionally charged personality to the tragic role of Puccini's Des Grieux.