Mireille (opera)

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Operas by Charles Gounod

Sapho (1851, rev. 1884)
La nonne sanglante (1854)
Le médecin malgré lui (1858)
Faust (1859, revised 1869)
Philémon et Baucis (1860, revised 1876)
La colombe (1860, revised 1866)
La reine de Saba (1862)
Mireille (1864)
Roméo et Juliette (1867)
Cinq-Mars (1877)
Maître Pierre (incomplete, 1877-8)

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Mireille is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. It premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris on March 19, 1864.

[edit] Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, March 19, 1864
(Conductor: - )
Mireille soprano Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho
Vincent, her lover tenor
Ourrias, a bull-tender baritone
Maître Ramon, father of Mireille bass
Taven, an old woman mezzo-soprano
Vincenette, Vincent's sister soprano
Andreloun, a shepherd mezzo-soprano
Maître Ambroise, father of Vincent bass
Clémence soprano