This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.
Claire - Ursuline Sister
Mannoury - a surgeon
Louise - Ursuline sister
Clerk of the Count
d'Armagnac - the Mayor of Loudun
Grandier - the vicar of St. Peter's Church
Philippe - a young girl
Father Barré - the vicar of Chinon
de Cerisay - town judge
Adam - a chemist
de Laubardemont - the King's special commissioner
Bontemps - a gaoler
Father Rangier
Ninon - a young widow
Gabrielle - Ursuline sister
Jeanne - the prioress of St. Ursula's Convent
Asmodeus
Father Ambrose - an old priest
Father Mignon - the Ursulines' father confessor
Prince Henri de Conde - the King's special ambassador