Manon, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: Revived by Christian Rath, Laurent Pelly's staging of Massenet's romantic classic - a significant success when new in 2010 - returns to the Covent Garden stage and once again delivers a convincing realisation of the story of the juvenile femme fatale whose conflicted desire for both true love and luxury leads to disaster for her and for her poor-but-mostly-honest boyfriend, Des Gr…