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We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arts news every morning. You have to hand it to Ambroise Thomas’s librettists Barbier and Carré: they never ducked an opportunity to ...

Opera tunes were constant fodder for home music-making in the 19th century. One tune from the now-defunct opera "Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas has provided Suzuki violin students pleasure — or pain — for ...

MIGNON,” the most recent Metropolitan revival, may be identified as the opera in which the basso is mad and the coloratura soprano remains compos mentis throughout. The fable of the libretto is so ...