Jean Delvoye

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Jean Delvoye (25 November 1854, in Liège – 13 June 1938, in Ougrée) was a Belgian baritone, who, after working in the French provinces, enjoyed a long career in Paris, centred on the Opéra-Comique, and left some recordings representative of his repertoire.

Life and career

Delvoye studied singing at the

Conservatoire de Liège under Georges Bonheur, obtaining a 2nd prize after only five months. He also won two first prizes in the "déclamation lyrique" class of baritone Sébastien Carman.[1]

Beckmesser was singled out for praise.[1]

His Paris début was at the Théâtre du Château d'Eau on 27 October 1898 as Ourrias in Mireille. At the Salle Favart, created Céleste (the role of Mazurier), le Chemineau (Thomas), Circé (Politès), La Danseuse de Pompéi (Philippe), La Fille de Tabarin (Frère Eloi), Le Follet (Jeannic), Les Fugitifs (Méraudon),

Hansel et Gretel (le Père), Macbeth (le Portier) and Tosca (le Sacristain),[5]

He also appeared in

Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (Boniface), Lakmé (Frédéric), Louise (Chansonnier), Madame Butterfly (Sharpless), Le Maître de Chapelle (Barnabé), Maître Wolfram (Wolfram), Manon (Brétigny, Lescaut), Les Noces de Jeannette (Jean), L'Ouragan (Gervais), Le Roi d'Ys (Karnac), Sapho (Césaire), La Traviata (d'Orbel), and La Bohème (Marcel).[5]

Antoine Delvoye published an article (in French) entitled 'Un grand artiste wallon : le baryton Jean Delvoye (1854-1938) in La Vie Wallonne, Tome 53 (1979), p. 175-219.

Recordings

He made a significant number of recordings of individual songs and arias, as well as some duets with other leading singers. They cover various national schools: French or Paris-based composers Adam, Carafa, Flotow, Gounod, Grétry, Grisart, Isouard, Maillart, Massé, Massenet, Messager, Meyerbeer, Planquette, Reyer, Saint-Saëns and Thomas; the Belgian Gevaert; Italians Donizetti, Paër and Rossini; and Germans Mozart and Humperdinck.[6] Two of these were reissued on CD as part of the Becko set of historical Belgian singers.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Le Passe-temps et le Parterre réunis, Lyon, 31 October 1897. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. ^ Bulletin de la Société liégeoise de Musicologie. No 80, January 1993, p28.
  3. ^ L'Europe artiste. No 39, October 24, 1886, p2.
  4. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique
    , 37eme edition, 1911. Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1912, p121.
  5. ^ a b Wolff S. Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900–1950). André Bonne, Paris, 1953.
  6. ^ Discographical data from The CHARM Discography, Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, <http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/about/about_structure>, accessed 8 October 2013.
  7. ^ La collection Yves Becko 2006, accessed 28 December 2013.
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