Berthet , Alvarez & Renaud by Benque

Lucy Berthet 1866 -??? as Gwendoline -Soprano
Albert Alvarez 1861-1933 as Armel -Tenor
Maurice Renaud 1861-1933 as Harald -Baritone
in 'GWENDOLINE' by Emmanuel Chabrier .cast of .Paris Premiere Palais Garnier 27/12/1893

LUCY BERTHET
(Lucie Adeline Marie Bertrand)
(1866-????)
Belguim Soprano
Pupil of Duvernoy , won 1st prize at the Conservatory in 1892, she started the same year at the Paris Opera. Debuted on September 25, 1892 in Hamlet (Ophelia) at the Opéra de Paris. She sang Roméo et Juliette (Juliette, 1892); Rigoletto (Gilda, 1892); Lohengrin (Elsa, 1893); Faust (Marguerite, 1894); Thaïs (Thaïs, 1894); Don Juan (Zerline, 1896); the Huguenots (the Queen, 1897).She participated in the first 12 May 1893 of Die Walküre (Ortlinte) [French version of Victor Wilder] by Richard Wagner; December 27, 1893 of Gwendoline (Gwendoline) by Emmanuel Chabrier.She created on 08 February 1895 Montagne Noire (Helena) of Augusta Holmès; February 19, 1897 Messidor (Helene) of Alfred Bruneau; April 13, 1898 the final version of Thaïs (Thaïs) by Jules Massenet; May 08, 1899 Briseis (Briseis) by Emmanuel Chabrier.

ALBERT ALVAREZ
(Albert Raymond Gourron)
( May 16, 1861 - February 26, 1933)
French Tenor

Debut in Faust (Faust) March 14, 1892 at the Opéra de Paris , He sang Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, 1892); Lohengrin (Lohengrin, 1892); Samson and Delilah (Samson, 1893); the Valkyrie (Siegmund, 1893); Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser, 1895); Aida (Radames, 1895); the Favorite (Fernand, 1896); Sigurd (Sigurd, 1896); the Huguenots (Raoul, 1897); the Prophet (John, 1898); Fatherland! (Kerloo, 1900); The Cid (Rodrigue, 1900); Othello (Othello, 1903); Il Trovatore (Manrique, 1904); Pagliacci (Canio, 1906); Salammbô (Matho, 1906).
He sang in the premiere at the Opera, November 10, 1897, the masters singers of Nuremberg (Walther) Richard Wagner [French version of Alfred Ernst]; December 11, 1904, Tristan and Isolde (Tristan) by Richard Wagner [French version of Alfred Ernst].
He created on 16 March 1894 Thaïs (Nicias) by Jules Massenet; February 08, 1895 the Black Mountain (Mirko) of Augusta Holmès; on December 18, 1895 Frédégonde (Merowig) to Ernest Guiraud; on April 24, 1896, Helle (Jean) of Alphonse Duvernoy. February 19, 1897 Messidor (Guillaume) of Alfred Bruneau; December 23, 1898 the Burgundian (Gauthier) of Paul Vidal; February 15, 1901 Astarte (Hercule) Xavier Leroux; on April 17, 1904, the son of Camille Erlanger Star (Bar-Kokeba

RENAUD Maurice (Maurice CRONEAU ). — Baritonen (Bordeaux, 24 Julyt 1862 – Paris, 16 October 1933).

Début 17 July 1891 in L'AFRICAINE (Nélusko). 1891, LES HUGUENOTS (Nevers), LA FAVORITE (Alphonse), SIGURD (Gunther, The Priest in 1896) ; 1892, FAUST (Valentin), GUILLAUME TELL (Leuthold, then Guillaume), AÏDA (Amonasro), LE SICILIEN (Tircis), OTHELLO (Iago) ; then SAMSON ET DALILA (Grand Priest 1893), TANNHÄUSER (Wolfram 1895) ; HAMLET (Hamlet), DON JUAN (Don Juan) in 1896 ; RIGOLETTO (Rigoletto), THAÏS (Athanaël) 1908 ; APOTHEOSE DE BEETHOVEN (Teltscher), HENRY VIII (Henry VIII) 1909 ; LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Méphistophélès, 1910), LE VIEIL AIGLE ( Khan, 1914), MONSIEUR CHOUFLEURI RESTERA CHEZ LUI LE... (Fetermann, 1919). Creator in LOHENGRIN ( Telramund), SALAMMBO (Hamilcar), LA VIE DU POETE, RHEINGOLD (Albérich), DEIDAMIE (Ulysse), GWENDOLINE (Harald), DJELMA (Raim), LA MONTAGNE NOIRE (Aslar), FREDEGONDE (Hilpérik), MESSIDOR (le Berger), LES MAÎTRES CHANTEURS DE NUREMBERG (Beckmesser), LA PRISE DE TROIE (Chorèbe), LANCELOT (Arthus . He created at the Nouveau-Théâtre on April 26, 1906 the Clown (Auguste) of Isaac de Camondo



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