Charles GOUNOD

Mireille

Mireille Inva Mula

Vincent Charles Castronovo

Ourrias Franck Ferrari

Ramon Alain Vernhes

Vincenette Anne Catherine Gillet

Taven Sylvie Brunet

Andreloun Sébastien Droy

Ambroise Nicolas Cavallier

Clemence Amel Brahim-Djelloul

Le Passeur Ugo Rabec

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opera National de Paris / Marc Minkowski

BONUS INCLUDES interviews with Marc Minkowski, Nicolas Joel & Christophe Ghristi [26’53]

Production de l’Opéra National de Paris

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!

No competition on DVD or Bluray.

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. [1979 Freni]

2h 32min

NTSC 16:9, Sound : DTS 5.2,

Language: Fr, Subtitles: Fr, Eng, Ger, Spa, It

NOTE: This Blu-ray disc is not compatible with DVD players

Blu-ray FRA502