Hippolyte-Adolphe Belhomme

as Gaveston in "La Dame Blanche" by Boieldieu

Hippolyte-Adolphe Belhomme
1854 - 1923
French bass or bass-baritone
Studied with Boulanger and Ponchard at the Paris Conservatoire. Debut as Baskir in “Lalla-Roukh” at the Opéra-Comique in 1879 .Sang much of the repertoire for the basses chantantes at the Opéra-Comique up to June 1886 and then again from 1891 to 1916, He also spent time at the opera houses of Lyon , Marseille and Brussels . He created at the Opera Comique Mathurin in “Monsieur de Floridor” by Lajarte 1880, Crespel in “Les contes d'Hoffmann” ny Offenbach 1881,Cordier in “ Les fugitives” by Fijin 1899,Tripalarga in “ La jota” by Laparra 1911 ,Le bohême in ‘ Louis” by Charpentier 1900, Le sonneur in “Marchande d’allumettes” , Hémistikos in “La Marriage de Télémaque “ by Terrass 1910,père Vincent in “ Noel” by Erlanger 1910,Landry in “ On ne badine pas avec l’amour” by Pierne 1910,Albornas in”La sorcière” by Erlanger1912,Le précepteur in “Le voile de bonheur” ny Pons 1911,Un ainé in “Léone” by Rousseau 1910. Roles Carmen (Escamillo and Dancaïre), Cendrillon (Pandolphe), La fille du régiment (Sulpice),Madama Butterfly (the Bonze), Mignon (Lothario), Tosca (Sacristan) and Werther (Le bailli)