Manon Lescaut - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

A 1974 ballet about this character uses music by Jules Massenet (“JOOL mass-en-EY”) without drawing from his opera titled for her. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character who struggles to choose between wealth and love, and dies from exposure in the arms of her lover Des Grieux (“deh gree-UH”) after being deported to Louisiana.

ANSWER: Manon Lescaut (“ma-NON less-COH”) [accept L’histoire de Manon; prompt on Lescaut]

[10h] L’histoire (“leest-WAH”) de Manon was created by this choreographer best known for his 1965 reimagining of Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Ballet, which was premiered by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn.

ANSWER: Kenneth MacMillan

[10e] Macmillan used Massenet’s “Élégie” to underscore this type of dance between Manon and Des Grieux. These two-person dances have a French name literally meaning “step of two.”

ANSWER: pas de deux

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Waterloo	0	0	10	10
Ottawa A	Ottawa C	10	0	10	20
Toronto Ray of Sun in the Sky	Ottawa B	0	0	10	10
SGV Capital	Auxiliary CLU	0	0	10	10
Duke	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
James Madison A	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
NC State	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	James Madison B	0	0	0	0
Emory A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Georgia B	Georgia A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Tennesee A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Warwick	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Oxford	0	0	10	10
Durham	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Edinburgh	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Indiana	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Georgetown	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
Kenyon B	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
Boston College	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	0	0	0
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Farrellmagnetism	0	0	10	10
MSU A and Friend	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
Cornell MATLAB	RIT	0	0	10	10
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell R	0	0	0	0
Texas B	HCC	0	0	10	10
TAMU	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas C	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	SIUE	0	0	10	10
WUSTL XYZ	Squidward Community College	0	0	10	10
WUSTL H2O	Missouri B	0	0	10	10