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Ambroise Thomas

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas Mignon and Hamlet. Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning France's top music prize, the Prix de Rome. He pursued a career as a composer of operas, completing his first opera, La double échelle, in 1837. He wrote twenty further operas over the next decades, mostly comic, but he also treated more serious subjects, finding considerable success with audiences in France and abroad. Thomas was appointed as a professor at the Conservatoire in 1856, and in 1871 he succeeded Daniel Auber as director. Between then and his death at his home in Paris twenty-five years later, he modernised the Conservatoire's organisation while imposing a rigidly conservative curriculum, hostile to modern music, and attempting to prevent composers such as César Franck and Gabriel Fauré from influencing the students of the Conservatoire. Thomas' operas were generally neglected during most of the 20th century, but in more recent decades they have experienced something of a revival both in Europe and the US. From Wikipedia (

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Overture To Raymond

United States Marine Band, Ambroise Thomas, & Colonel John R. Bourgeois

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Mignon: Gavotte

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Thomas: Le songe d'une nuit d'été: Malgré l'eclat qui m'environne

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"C'est en croyant revoir...Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse !" from Hamlet, Act 2 (Voice)

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Mignon - Connais-tu le pays (Romance, Act 1, Mignon)

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French Overtures (Paul Paray: The Mercury Masters II, Volume 13)

2022

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Frederica von Stade Sings Highlights from Humperdinck, Thomas and Massenet

2016

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Il mito dell'oprera: Lina Pagliughi (1928-1954)

2015

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Overtures: Mozart - Nicolai - Strauss, Jr. - von Weber - Thomas

2018

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Saint-Saëns & Shostakovich

2016

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Thomas: Hamlet

2012

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Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne - Suppé: Die schöne Galatea Overture - Hérold & Thomas: Overtures

2018

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LP Pure, Vol. 21: Scherchen Conducts French Overtures

2015

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Famous Overtures 7

2017

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Ambroise: Mignon (Sung in Italian) [Recorded 1949]

2015

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Callas - Mad Scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet & Il pirata - Callas Remastered

Single • 2014

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Ca ne va pas

Single • 2012

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Great Opera Recordings - Scenes of Madness

EP • 2010

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Thomas: Hamlet: Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse

Single • 2025

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French Arias

Single • 2022

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky - O vin, dissipe la tristesse (Japan 2005) HD

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Oui, pour ce soir..Je suis Titania la blonde [Mignon] - A.Thomas | Soprano Yewon Han | 소프라노 한예원

Yewon Han • 20K views

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María José Montiel sings "Connais-tu le pays" - "Mignon", by Thomas

María José Montiel • 49K views

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Hugo Wolf - "Kennst du das Land" - Schwarzkopf

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Ô Vin Dissipe la Tristesse - Hamlet - A. Thomas

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A.THOMAS - Air d'Hamlet "O Vin dissipe la tristesse" - Jérôme BOUTILLIER - Révélation Adami 2016

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Simon Keenlyside - Hamlet: Ò vin, dissipe la tristesse

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한예원_Voice Female_2019 JoongAng Music Concours

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Thomas | Mignon : Gavotte

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Ambroise Thomas: "Connais-tu le pays?"

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