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Composer:
Charles Gounod

Artist(s):
Inva Mula
Charles Castronovo

Conductor:
Marc Minkowski

Background: This production resuscitates Gounod’s largely forgotten opera Mireille. A triumph for Marc Minkowski, conducting at the Opéra National de Paris, it attracted more than 1 million viewers when broadcast on TV!

In 1859, a young Provençal poet, Fredéric Mistral, wrote his masterpiece, Miréio, a vast epic love poem. Gounod, whose Faust was created that year, read Mireille shortly after publication and went to Saint-Rémy de Provence to meet Mistral. Gounod was charmed by the originality of the work, the story being much less contrived than many of those on the operatic stage at the time.

The opera has had a difficult career and was revised and altered several times. In 1939, Guy Ferrant and Henri Busser, disciples of Gounod, restored the five-act original and Mireille was finally restored from dancing on a fine midsummer's morning, to the gripping scene in the desert-like Crau region.

CATALOGUE NR: FRA502
RECORD LABEL: FRA Productions
FORMAT: DVD Video Blu-ray
PRICE: including VAT £ 28.99
RELEASE DATE: 08-Nov-2010

COMPOSER: Charles Gounod
TITLE: Mireille - complete
TRACKS: bonus material - includes interviews with Marc Minkowski / Nicolas Joel / Christophe Ghristi.
ORCHESTRA: Orchestre de L'Opera National de Paris
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Inva Mula   Charles Castronovo   Franck Ferrari   Anne Catherine Gillet

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 - please note this Blu-ray disc - BD is not compatible with standard DVD players / Sound Format: DTS 5.2 / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 152 minutes / Recorded: sung in French / Subtitles: French English German Spanish Italian - Christmas-2010 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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