Manon Lescaut - 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL

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


Missouri A	SIUE	10	10
WUSTL XYZ	Squidward Community College	10	10
WUSTL H2O	Missouri B	10	10