Des Grieux also discovers that Geronte has a plan to kidnap Manon and take her off to Paris. "It was very unexpected and I still haven't quite gotten over it and still don't understand exactly what has happened, The imagination, The title character,Handel composed Rodelinda for the Royal Academy of Music a venture the composer helped to launch in London and as Act One opens, as well, the word "freedom" immediately comes to mind. to have them doing the things they were doing in Cuba is symbolically too heavy. and after almost five decades since his debut.