Jacques Isnardon
Jacques Isnardon (15 February 1860 – 14 November 1930) was a French bass-baritone, writer and voice teacher.
After winning a competition at the
Die Meistersinger at Covent Garden, Manon at La Scala and Le médecin malgré lui at Monte Carlo before returning to the Opéra-Comique in 1894. His Le Chant Théâtral is as much a memoir of his times as a philosophy of vocal pedagogy: "Herein is but one method: the new method for each pupil".[2] One of his students was American actress, writer, and translator Virginia Fox Brooks.[3]
He sang in the world premieres of Jocelyn and Le chevalier d'Harmental; other roles included Mozart's Bartolo and Rossini's Basilio; Puccini's Colline and Leoncavallo's Schaunard; Masetto, Lescaut, Enrico & at various times 5 roles (Mercutio, Paris, Gregorio, Laurent and the Duke) from Roméo et Juliette.
Writings
- Le théatre de la Monnaie depuis sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours. Schott Frères. Brussel. 1890. reissued Kessinger 2010)
- Le Chant Théâtral (1911, reissued by Nabu Press 2010; preface by Reynaldo Hahn)
Notes and sources
- ^ in an 1891 letter Isnardon gives the year 1884 as well as the role name.
- ^ p. 12
- ^ "Virginia Fox Brooks". The South Bend Tribune. 30 October 1919. p. 6. Retrieved 3 October 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Jacques Isnardon". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Martin, Jules (1895) Nos artists: Portraits et biographies. Paris: Libraire de l'Annuaire universale, (p. 195) (in French)
External links
- Photo by Nadar
- Jacques Isnardon in Les Contes d'Hoffmann on Gallica
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