Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 17 November 1866 (Conductor: Théophile Tilmant) |
Second version cast, 5 July 1870 (Conductor: Luigi Arditi) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mignon | mezzo-soprano (1866) soprano (1870) |
Célestine Galli-Marié |
Christine Nilsson |
| Philine, an actress | soprano | Marie Cabel | Elisa Volpini |
| Wilhelm Meister, a student | tenor | Léon Achard | Alessandro Bettini |
| Frédéric, Philine's admirer | tenor (1866) contralto (1870) |
Bernard Voisy |
Zelia Trebelli-Bettini |
| Laerte, an actor | tenor | Joseph-Antoine-Charles Couderc | Edouard Gassier |
| Lothario, a wandering minstrel | bass | Eugène Bataille | Jean-Baptiste Faure |
| Jarno, a gypsy | bass | François Bernard | Signor Raguer |
| Antonio, a castle servant | bass | Davoust | Giovanni Volpini? |
| Chorus: Townspeople, peasants, gypsies, guests, actors | |||
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