Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811 - 12 February 1896) was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.
Overture to the Opera Mignon (1866)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier
Mignon is an opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The Italian version was translated by Giuseppe Zaffira. The opera is mentioned in James Joyce's "The Dead" (Dubliners) and Willa Cather's The Professor's House. Thomas's goddaughter Mignon Nevada was named after the main character.[
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