Puccini Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut is the first volume of the series The operas of
Giacomo Puccini - Critical Edition - in collaboration with Archivio
storico Ricordi and Fondazione Simonetta Puccini. It makes available
the three main versions of the opera that have survived in various
sources: an 1893 version, with the original Act I finale, the first
version of Manon's Act IV aria, and the uncut version of the final
duet in Act IV; a midcareer version imagined by Puccini in the first
decade of the new century, when he sanctioned the almost complete
omission of Manon's Act IV aria; and finally the last version that
Puccini lived to approve, with Manon's aria restored.
The volume is introduced by a preface to the Puccini Critical
Edition, an historical introduction, a detailed description of the
opera's many sources and a lengthy critical commentary which
discusses numerous problematic details in the musical text.