from Act I of the French opera
Mignon by Ambroise Thomas
Libretto: Jules Barbier
Role: Mignon, stolen from an Italian castle by gypsies as a young girl
Voice Part: mezzo-soprano Fach: lyric mezzo
Setting: courtyard of a German Inn, late 1700s
Synopsis: Mignon tells Wilhelm about her native land, which she knows only in vague memories.