Gounod: Mireille

Mula attacks the testing title-role with spirit and agility, just lacking a lick of tenderness…The handsome, unhappy Castronovo is in wonderful voice as Vincent. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2021

Release Date: 11th Jun 2021
Catalogue No: 2110683-84
Label: Naxos

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Video Performance

Gounod: Mireille

Inva Mula (Mireille), Charles Castronovo (Vincent), Opéra national de Paris (opera company), Nicolas Joel
Marc Minkowski

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Charles Gounod was enchanted by the young Provençal-born Frédéric Mistral's epic love poem Mirèio, and enlisted the distinguished Michel Carré to fashion a libretto. Against the grain of prevailing operatic practice in the 1860s, and its promotion of glamour and spectacle, Gounod relished instead the lives of modest country people and their idyllic world. He utilises folk dances and a shepherds lament to chart the story of his tragic heroine whose desire to marry her true love ends in her death. Everything feels true to the operas pastoral spirit wrote Gramophone about this production, which marked the operas first appearance at the Paris Opera.

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September 2021

Mula attacks the testing title-role with spirit and agility, just lacking a lick of tenderness…The handsome, unhappy Castronovo is in wonderful voice as Vincent.

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