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The title character in Manon is usually played as an amoral femme fatale. After all, Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet — based on Abbé Prévost’s 18th-century novel Manon Lescaut — has her betraying her true love, penniless divinity student Des Grieux, to be the mistress of a wealthy man. But as…

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