Name: Mireille
Start: 2009-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-10-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palais Garnier

Organization

Chanteur

Soprano

Inva Mula

Mireille

Ténor

Charles Castronovo

Vincent

Baryton

Franck Ferrari

Ourrias

Basse

Alain Vernhes

Maître Ramon

Mezzo-soprano

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Taven

Anne-Catherine Gillet

Vincenette

Voix d'enfant

Sébastien Droy

Andrelou

Nicolas Cavallier

Maître Ambroise

Amel Brahim-Djelloul

Clémence

Ugo Rabec

Le passeur

Direction d'orchestre

Marc Minkowski

Mise en scène

Nicolas Joël

Costumes

Franca Squarciapino

Décors

Ezio Frigerio

Lumières

Vinicio Cheli

Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou

Un Arlésien

Sophie Claisse

Une voix d'en-haut

Alexandre Duhamel

L'Echo

Direction de choeur

Patrick Marie Aubert

Opéra National de Paris

Others

Chœur de l’Opéra national de Paris

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Paris

France

Palais Garnier

In 2009, Frédéric Mistral’s tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of Gounod’s 1864 opera Mireille. Nicolas Joel’s naturalistic staging frames the accomplished performances of Albanian soprano Inva Mula as Mireille and American tenor Charles Castronovo as her ardent country lover Vincent.

The traditional lifestyle of France’s southern region as captured in Frédéric Mistral’s Mireille, an epic poem that evokes this ancient culture in the region’s native Occitàn language. Fascinated by the Provençal world the poem describes, Gounod decided to make Mireille into an opera, and his passion for the project led him to travel to the region and meet Mistral himself on multiple occasions during the composition process. Together with librettist Michel Carré, Gounod developed a five-act opera that closely mirrors the poet’s original French prose translation of his epic. Its 1864 premiere was met with mixed success, leading subsequent performances to include widely-differing cuts and revisions (and even a happy ending to replace the original tragic one!).

The plot tells the story of Mireille, a young woman from a good Provençal family who would prefer to marry the poor farmer Vincent rather than Ourrias, a rich man chosen by her father. When Ourrias injures Vincent and leaves him for dead, Mireille decides to go on a pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries to ask for Vincent’s recovery. Tragically, in crossing the La Crau desert she dies of heat stroke and is called to heaven by a choir of angels.

Mireille Gounod

Public

Valide

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