Charles Dalmorès
Charles Dalmorès (actually Henri Alphonse Brin ; born December 21 or 31, 1871 in Nancy , † December 6, 1939 in Los Angeles ) was a French opera singer ( tenor ).
Dalmorès studied horn at the Conservatory of his hometown and from 1880 to 1891 at the Paris Conservatory and was then horn player in the orchestras of Charles Lamoureux and Édouard Colonne . In 1894 he became a teacher at the Lyon Conservatory. He then studied singing with Edmond Vergnet in Paris and made his debut in Lyon in 1899 as a box in a concert performance of Wagner's Rheingold and on stage in the same year at the Rouen Opera House in the title role of Wagner's Siegfried .
From 1900 to 1906 he was engaged at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where, in addition to Wagner roles, he also sang Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (with Claire Friché ) and participated in the world premiere of Ernest Chausson's Le roi Arthus . During this time he also studied the Wagner repertoire with Franz Emmerich in Stuttgart. From 1904 to 1911 he also appeared annually at the Covent Garden Opera (including in Hérodiade by Jules Massenet , Hélène by Camille Saint-Saëns , Louise by Gustave Charpentier and in 1905 in the world premiere of Franco Leonis L'oracolo ).
From 1906 to 1910 Dalmorès was engaged at the Manhattan Opera House in New York, where he made his debut in Gounod's Faust and appeared on the stage as José in Carmen , Manrico in Il trovatore and Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande, among others . During this time, guest performances took him to Cologne, Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Hanover. At the Bayreuth Festival in 1908 he sang Lohengrin . 1910-12 he was a member of the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company, with whom he performed at the Metropolitan Opera .
From 1913 to 1918 Dalmorès was first tenor at the Chicago Opera, where he sang the title roles in Wagner's Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde . After completing his stage career, he taught singing in New York and later in Los Angeles. Between 1907 and 1912, Victor Records made a number of recordings with him, including a. with arias and duets from Verdi's Il trovatore , Wagner's Lohengrin , Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète , Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila , Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann , Georges Bizet's Carmen , Massenets Griselidis and Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Faust .
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SURNAME | Dalmorès, Charles |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brin, Henri Alphonse (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (tenor) |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1871 or December 31, 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nancy |
DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1939 |
Place of death | los Angeles |