Hector Dufrane

as Ganelon in La Fille de Roland by Henri Rabaud CREATOR 1904

Hector Dufranne
1870 – 1951
Belgian operatic bass-baritone

He studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Désiré Demest .Debut in 1896 at La Monnaie as Valentin in " Faust" Gounod.
Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1900 to 1912 , Paris Opera Opéra de Monte-Carlo Royal Opera, Covent Garden in London. Manhattan Opera Company Chicago Grand Opera Company and the Chicago Opera Association .Created many roles Saluces in Griselidis (1901), the title role in Alfred Bruneau's L' Ouragan (1901), Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), Amaury-Ganelon in La Fille de Roland by Henri Rabaud (1904), Koebi in Gustave Doret's Les Armaillis (1906), the title role in Xavier Leroux's Le Chemineau, Clavaroche in Fortunio by André Messager (1907), the fiancé in Raoul Laparra's La Habanéra (1908), and Don Iñigo Gomez in Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole (1911) 1922, returned to Paris where he continued to appear in operas in all the major houses in addition to appearing in other opera houses in France. He also spent a brief time performing in Amsterdam in 1935.With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Retired from the stage, with his last performance being the role of Golaud at the opera house in Vichy. He lived in Paris where he taught singing for many years before his death in 1951.