Gabriel bacquier biography
- Gabriel Bacquier was a French operatic baritone.
- Gabriel Bacquier was a French operatic baritone.
- Gabriel Bacquier was born on May 17, 1924 in Béziers, Hérault, France.
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Gabriel Bacquier
French operatic singer (1924–2020)
Gabriel Bacquier (French pronunciation:[gabʁjelbakje]; 17 May 1924 – 13 May 2020) was a French operatic baritone. One of the leading baritones of the 20th century and particularly associated with the French and Italian repertoires, he was considered a fine singing actor equally at home in dramatic or comic roles and gave regular song recitals. He was a long-term member of the Opéra-Comique and the Paris Opera, but forged a long career internationally at leading opera houses in Europe and the U.S. His large discography spans five decades, and he was considered as “the ambassador of French song”.[1]
Early life and studies
Born Gabriel Augustin-Raymond-Théodore-Louis Bacquier in Béziers, France, on 17 May 1924,[2][3][4] he was the only child of railway employees.[5] As a young boy, he was fascinated by everything to do with singing: records, broadcasts and photos of singers.[6] Leaving school aged 14, he worked at his uncle's print-shop, while s
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GABRIEL BACQUIER
Le génie de l’interprétation
By Silvie Oussenko
Paris 2011 MJW Fédition 132 pp
ISBN 978-2-9524573-8-7
EUR 20
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Postwar France was not poor in great baritone singing. Baritones such as Ernest Blanc, Gerard Souzay, Michel Dens, René Bianco, Jean Borthayre, Robert Massard and Willy Clément were at one time ringing names. Today there’s but one successor and that’s Ludovic Tézier, a meager crop and telling. Bacquier (born in 1924 ) was possibly the one with the greatest international operatic career. Bacquier had neither Massard's brio nor Blanc's velvety richness of voice, but he compensated for this by his dramatic imagination and the kind of dark vocal gleam that reminds one of Tito Gobbi or Fischer-Dieskau. (dixit André Tubeuf)
Sylvie Oussenko a former singer herself has already books about Chopin and Schumann amongst others to her credit and now wrote a biography on the artist. It is not a biography in the classical nor the chronological sense but one which analy
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Biography
Gabriel Bacquier (17 May 1924 – 13 May 2020) was a French operatic baritone. One of the leading baritones of the 20th century and particularly associated with the French and Italian repertoires, he was considered a fine singing actor equally at home in dramatic or comic roles and gave regular song recitals. He was a long-term member of the Opéra-Comique and the Paris Opera, but forged a long career internationally at leading opera houses in Europe and the U.S. His large discography spans five decades, and he was considered as “the ambassador of French song”.
Born Gabriel Augustin-Raymond-Théodore-Louis Bacquier in Béziers, France, on 17 May 1924, he was the only child of railway employees. As a young boy, he was fascinated by everything to do with singing: records, broadcasts and photos of singers. Leaving school aged 14, he worked at his uncle's print-shop, while studying in Montpellier to become a commercial artist, but during the Vichy regime, to avoid the round-ups and deportations by the Service du travail obligatoire, his parents arranged for him to do national
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