Opera News, June 1st, 2005
OPERA AND ORATORIO
THOMAS: Mignon
* Vignon, Massis; Gabriel, Cassard, Ermelier, Courtis, Berger; Théâtre Français de la Musique chorus, Harmonia Nova orchestra, Denève. Text and translation. Accord 464 300-2 (2)
Seldom revived nowadays, Mignon (1866) was once wildly popular. Verdi is said to have preferred it to Carmen, and in 1894, to mark its 1,000th performance at the Opéra Comique in Paris, Mignon earned Ambroise Thomas the Cross of the Legion of Honor for this eighteenth of his twenty operas. Like Hamlet, his only other lasting success, Mignon had to be tailored to suit different ...
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