Manon (Metropolitan Opera)
Rounding out the Metropolitan Opera's new productions for this season is Laurent Pelly's very grey "Manon". I was lucky enough to be in London when this production was actually new and I gave it a mixed review then. Second time around, with a mostly new cast, it's still far from overwhelming if interesting in its own way.With Anna Netrebko in the title role, as she was in London, certain pleasures were more or less g…