| Dinorah Le pardon de Ploërmel | |
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| Opéra comique by Giacomo Meyerbeer | |
 Poster for the premiere depicting Corentin, Dinorah, and Hoël | |
| Librettist | |
| Language | French |
| Based on | Breton tales |
| Premiere | 4 April 1859 |
Dinorah, originally Le pardon de Ploërmel (The Pardon of Ploërmel),[1] is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.[2] The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.[3]
- ^ In France the opera is most often performed as Le pardon de Ploërmel. The translation "The Pilgrimage of Ploërmel" is by Huebner (1992) and is not generally used as the title in English-speaking countries. Some revivals in France and most performances outside France have used the name Dinorah. Other French titles have included Le Pardon de Notre-Dame d'Auray and Les Chercheurs d'or (Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 353).
- ^ Additions to the libretto were made in German by Meyerbeer and Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and translated into French by Georges-Frédéric Burguis and Joseph Duesburg respectively (Arsenty 2008, p. 1).
- ^ Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 353; Letellier 2008, p. 187 (Letellier gives the title of the second story as "Le Kacouss de l'amour".)