Michel Roux (baritone), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michel Roux (baritone)

French opera singer

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1924

Place of Birth: AngoulĂŞme, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1998

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Michel Roux (baritone)

  • Michel Roux (1 September 1924, in AngoulĂŞme – 4 February 1998, in Paris) was a French baritone, an established principal at the Paris OpĂ©ra who also enjoyed an international career. Roux studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire and in Paris, making his operatic debut on 5 October 1949 in LakmĂ© at the OpĂ©ra-Comique, going on to sing in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Manon and PellĂ©as and MĂ©lisande, creating l'Aveugle in Madame Bovary in 1951, and remaining a principal singer there until 1955.His debut at La Scala came in 1953 as Golaud, a role that became central to his repertory.
  • From 1956 to 1970 Roux sang annually at Glyndebourne, making his debut as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro.
  • His American debut was at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1959; he also appeared at the Vienna Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, as well as in Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon.Roux was known as an intelligent singer and a vivid stage actor.
  • During the 1950s he appeared in a series of comic French films directed by Julien Duvivier and in later life he taught at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
  • In 1983 he took the title role in a revival of ChristinĂ©'s Phi-Phi at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens.His many recordings include: Raimbaud (Le Comte Ory), Escamillo (Carmen), Golaud (PellĂ©as et MĂ©lisande), Mizgir (The Snow Maiden), Gondremarck (La Vie parisienne), Calchas (La belle HĂ©lène) and MephistophĂ©lès (La damnation de Faust).

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