Lucienne Breval & Leon Gressi by Nadar

Lucienne Breval as Eva & Leon Gressi as Pogner 'Maitres Chantuers" Wagner

LEON PIERRE NAPOLEON GRESSI
Charolles, July 22, 1845 - 78.Marly-le-Roi, April 13, 1900).
French Bass
Debut October 20, 1875 in HAMLET (a gravedigger). Sings the HUGUENOTS (Saint-Bris, 1875;) Marcel, 1885), GUILLAUME TELL (Gessler, 1876; Walther, 1885); then, in 1885, the FAVORITE (Balthazar), Jewish (Brogni); in 1886, RIGOLETTO (Sparafucile), ROBERT LE DIABLE (Bertram), the African (don Pedro), LE CID (don Diegue); in 1887, AIDA (Ramfis), the Prophet (Zaccharie); then HAMLET (King, 1888), SAMSON ET DALILA (old Hebrew man, 1893), ROMEO and Juliet (brother Laurent, 1894). A created SIGURD (Hagen), die WALKÜRE (Hounding), OTHELLO (Ludovic), the MONTAGNE NOIRE (father Saval), the MASTERSINGERS of NUREMBERG (Pogner). At la Monnaie in Brussels, he created December 19, 1881 Hérodiade (Patrick) by Jules Massenet




LUCIENNE BREVAL
(4 November 1869, Zürich- 15 August 1935, Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Swiss Soprano