Editing Mignon (section)

{{Short description|Opera by Ambroise Thomas}}
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{{Infobox opera 
| name              = Mignon
| composer          = [[Ambroise Thomas]]
| image             = Mignon (opera) 1866 poster NGO3p383.jpg
| image_upright     = 1.3
| caption           = Poster for the premiere, by [[Jules Chéret]]
| librettist        = {{plainlist|
* [[Jules Barbier]]
* [[Michel Carré]]
}}
| language          = French
| based_on          = {{based on|''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship|Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre]]''|Goethe}}
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1866|11|17|df=y}}
| premiere_location = [[Opéra-Comique]], Paris
}}
'''''Mignon''''' ({{IPA|fr|miɲɔ̃|-|Fr-mignon.ogg}}) is an 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]], based on [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe's]] 1795-96 novel ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship|Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre]]''. The Italian version was translated by Giuseppe Zaffira. The opera is mentioned in [[James Joyce]]'s "[[The Dead (Joyce short story)|The Dead]]" (in ''[[Dubliners]]'') and [[Willa Cather]]'s ''[[The Professor's House]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cather |first=Willa |title=The Professor's House |url=https://archive.org/details/professorshouse0000cath_e2e8 |year=1925 |page=92|publisher=New York, A. A. Knopf }}</ref>  Thomas's goddaughter [[Mignon Nevada]] was named after the main character.<ref>{{cite book | title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 | first=Edward T. | last=James | author2=James, Janet Wilson| author3=Boyer, Paul S. | publisher=Harvard University Press | year=1971 | page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/618 618] | isbn=0-674-62734-2 | url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0| url-access=registration | quote=Mignon Nevada Ambroise Thomas. }}</ref> The aria “I am Titania” was used repeatedly in the British feature film “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp”.