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    Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz tɔmɑ]; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas...
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    Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868 by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French...
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  • (Offenbach) Ophélie, Hamlet (Ambroise Thomas) Oscar, Un ballo in maschera (Verdi) – trouser role Philine, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas) Philomele, The Love of the...
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  • composer Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896). All premieres took place in Paris unless otherwise noted. Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Thomas, Ambroise' in The New...
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    Mignon (category Operas by Ambroise Thomas)
    1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré...
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    principal music college, the Paris Conservatoire. There he studied under Ambroise Thomas, whom he greatly admired. After winning the country's top musical prize...
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    high D (D6). Final cadenza from the Valse in Ophélie's Mad Scene (Act IV) from the opera Hamlet (1868) by Ambroise Thomas (piano-vocal score, p. 292)....
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    she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman...
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    such prominent composers as Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi and Ambroise Thomas. They included the leading baritone parts in L'Africaine, Don Carlos...
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    repeated this gesture twice – on the deaths of Charles Gounod in 1894 and Ambroise Thomas in 1896. Professors from the Conservatoire were elected on both occasions...
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