Anna Picard

Manon Lescaut is twerking — should we applaud or shudder? 

How the Welsh National Opera's MTV version of Manon the minx made me wish for comfortable cotton underwear

Gwyn Hughes Jones as des Grieux with Chiara Taigi as Manon [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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