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Updated: May 8, 2025
Vincent, a young basket-maker, loves the fair Mireille, who is the daughter of a rich farmer named Raymond. Raymond will have nothing to say to so humble a suitor, and favours the pretensions of Ourrias, a herdsman. While making a pilgrimage to a church in the desert of Crau, Mireille has a sunstroke, and her life is despaired of.
That which is now most usually played is in three acts. In the first version of the work there is a curious scene, in which Ourrias is drowned by a spectral ferryman in the waters of the Rhone, but this is now rarely performed. In 1869 was produced 'Roméo et Juliette, an opera which, in the estimation of the majority of Gounod's admirers, ranks next to 'Faust' in the catalogue of his works.
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