Ambroise Thomas
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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet.
Thomas by Wilhelm Benque, c. 1895
Thomas in 1834 by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin
Le caïd, 1849
Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet, painted by Manet
Mignon
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Mignon is an 1866 opéra comique in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The It
Ambroise Thomas
…Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: ; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix…
Poster for the premiere, by Jules Chéret
Célestine Galli-Marié created the role of Mignon at the première.
Marie Cabel as Philine
Mignon verlangende naar haar vaderland, by Ary Scheffer, 1836 (Dordrechts Museum)