A spokesperson says---
"...Created during MacMillan's tenure as Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet in London, Manon is set to...music by Jules Massenet and follows the...anti-heroine Manon and her devoted but impoverished Des Grieux as they are drawn into a world of luxury, temptation, and heartbreak from the gritty streets of Paris to the bayous of Louisiana.
...The title role is widely considered one of the most demanding in the international repertoire, requiring a ballerina to move convincingly from naive convent girl to scheming Parisian courtesan to a woman undone by desperation, all within a single evening. The physical demands match the dramatic ones: Manon's bedroom pas de deux and the ballet's harrowing final scene rank among the most technically and emotionally punishing partnered sequences in classical ballet..."
