Henri Tayau
Henri Tayau | |
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Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Operetta singer, actor, violinist |
Henri Tayau was an operetta singer and actor, and violinist, who during a short but successful career performed many light
Life and career
While a violin teacher in Pau, Tayau took part in a charity concert for the destitute in that city, singing for the first time in public with great success. In Paris the following month, Offenbach engaged him on the basis of an audition consisting of a simple song (chansonnette). Tayau soon gained experience and popularity. His witty expressions, fine diction and acting led to eminence in the theatre.[1]
Tayau made his debut at the
In Les Petits Prodiges (1857), alongside a cello solo from
He sang Flavio / Florville in Offenbach's production of Rossini's
During a spring visit to the Grand-Théâtre in Marseille, during which the Bouffes company performed 23 operas by Offenbach and other composers, Tayau, who was also one of the stage managers, was noted as "premier amoureux comique" (leading comic lover), who undertook his dual role as an "intelligent artist", as well as his violin playing.[11]
He created the title role in
Subsequent premieres included La Polka des sabots in 1859, a one-act opérette by Varney (conductor of the Bouffes orchestra),[15] and Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile, another one-act opérette, by Delibes in 1860, alongside Marchand, Gaillat and Cico.[16]
In 1864 Tayau sang Raflafla in Offenbach's
Alongside Schneider and other company singers he took part in a tour to twenty towns in Ireland, Scotland and England in 1870 organized by the director of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. The tour began on 14 March in Dublin, with a repertoire consisting of La Grande-Duchesse, Barbe-Bleue, Orphée, and La Périchole.[20]
Family
Tayau's daughter was the violinist and violin teacher
References
Notes
- ^ Mercure de France. Couriers des Deux-Mondes - du 15 mars au 15 avril 1857, p13 (in Musée des Familles).
- ^ Henri de Curzon. Léo Delibes - sa vie et ses oeuvres (1836-1892). Librairie Musical G Legouix, Paris, 1926, p22. Singing with him were Marie Garnier as Segovia and Marguerite Macé as Sidonie his beloved, who would create, respectively Vénus and L'Opinion publique with Tayau in Orphée aux enfers two years later.
- ^ a b c d e Yon, Jean-Claude. Jacques Offenbach. Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2000.
- ^ Le Nouvelliste : quotidien politique, littéraire, industriel et commercial. Paris, 31 March 1857, p2.
- ^ La Salle, Albert de. Histoire des Bouffes-parisiens. Librairie Nouvelle, Paris, 1860, p64.
- ^ Charles Lecocq 'Souvenirs'. Les Annales politiques et littéraires : revue populaire paraissant le dimanche, 15 December 1912, No.1538, p519.
- ^ La Salle, Albert de. Histoire des Bouffes-parisiens. Librairie Nouvelle, Paris, 1860, p71.
- ^ Le Ménestrel : journal de musique. Paris, 3 January 1858, p3.
- ^ "La Chatte métamorphosée en femme : opéra-comique en un acte". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 Oct 2020.
- ^ Le Ménestrel (Paris) 25 December 1859, p31.
- ^ Théâtres de la province. Le Monde dramatique; Journal des théâtres, 17 June 1858, p3.
- ^ Lamb A. Orphée aux Enfers. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
- ^ Robert Burat. Les miettes de Paris. Le Figaro 1 February 1866.
- ^ L'Argus et le Vert-vert réunis. Lyon, 12 August 1860.
- ^ Jules Noriac. Échos de Paris. Le Figaro, 30 October 1859.
- ^ Georges Davidson. À travers les théâtres. Le Figaro, 5 February 1860.
- ^ L'Orchestre : revue quotidienne des théâtres. 1 November 1864, last page.
- ^ La Musique en 1864 [-1865], documents relatifs à l'art musical recueillis et mis en ordre par Paul de Toyon. Paris, Publication date : 1865-1866.
- ^ L'Orchestre : revue quotidienne des théâtres. Paris, 17 September 1867, p1.
- ^ Jules Prével. Courrier des théâtres. Le Figaro, 1 March 1870. quoted on the https://www.jacquesoffenbach.fr/ site
- ^ Nécrologie - Mademoiselle Marie Tayau. Le Courrier de la Rochelle, 25 August 1892, p3.
- ^ Le Parnasse - Organe des Concours Littéraires de Paris. 5th year, No.48, 15 September 1881, p4.
External links
A photo of Tayau as Orphée appears at http://www.offenbach-edition.com/EN/Media/Galerie (included in the CD-rom in their critical edition) as the first one in the fourth row.