page_title: Dinorah
section_title: Act 1
hierarchical_section_title: Dinorah / Synopsis / Act 1
caption_attribution_description: English: Act II set design for the premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Le pardon de Ploërmel (Dinorah), presented by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 4 April 1859.
context_page_description: Dinorah, originally Le pardon de Ploërmel, is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. 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.
context_section_description: During the annual pilgrimage to the chapel of the Virgin, Dinorah has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël disappeared following a storm that interrupted their wedding on the same day the previous year. Dinorah has lost her pet goat Bellah but, believing she has found Bellah, she sings a lullaby to the goat and then walks away (Berceuse:Bellah, ma chèvre chérie). Hoël returns to the village, having discovered the whereabouts of a treasure. He enlists Corentin to help him recover the riches, but not without sinister intent, since according to the legend, the first to touch them will perish.
caption: The Mühldorfers' design for act 2, scene 2
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