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S O F I A N A T I O N A L O P E R A
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| Director: Sdravko Mitkov |
Conductor: Nayden Todorov | |
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G O U N O D Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) had a particularly strong influence on French composers from the middle of the 19th century. After a classical education, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1837. In Rome he developed his interest in church music. He returned to Paris in 1843, after developing a wide knowledge of earlier and contemporary music abroad. Gounod achieved considerable success in the theatre, but the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 brought a largely unprofitable interruption. He moved to England to conduct for the Royal Choral Society. Seven of his operas were written with the librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. These were his librettists for his most famous opera, Faust (1859). Barbier and Carré based their version on Goethe's play, originally only the first part. They later added Act V of the opera, which includes episodes from the second part. When Gounod died in 1893, the opera had been performed over a thousand times in Paris. |
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