Ambroise Thomas

One of leading opera composers of nineteenth-century France, Ambroise Thomas was a successor to Meyerbeer, Auber and Offenbach. He was responsible for Mignon, one of the most popular operas ever written, and the hauntingly beautiful Hamlet. Born into a musical family, Thomas entered the Paris Conservatory in 1828, at seventeen. He won the Prix de Rome for a cantata he wrote there, and studied in ...more