Georges Jouatte

Georges Jouatte (born June 17, 1892 in Villefagnan , Département Charente , † February 13, 1969 in La Rochelle ) was a French opera singer ( tenor ) and vocal teacher .

Life

Jouatte began his career as a dancer at the Casino de Paris - to finance his vocal studies at the Paris Conservatory . In the 1920s he went to Germany to deepen his education. There he played a supporting role in the first full-length German sound film in 1929: The country without women (together with Conrad Veidt) and was active as a concert and operetta singer in Berlin.

Back in Paris, he first took the stage in 1932 at the Théâtre Mogador . After retraining to the tenor subject by Paul Cabanel and Louis Fourestier , he made his debut in 1934 at the Paris Opéra Garnier in Gounod's Faust .

He had great success here in 1936 in Richard Strauss ' Rosenkavalier in the presence of the composer. Other of his roles at the Paris Opera were Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio , Admète in Gluck's Alceste , Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni , Erik in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman , Ulysse in Fauré's Pénélope and Armal in Chabrier's Gwendoline .

Since 1937 he has also been a member of the Paris Opéra-Comique ensemble , where he appeared in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea . During the occupation, tours to festivals in Salzburg, Vienna, Montreux, Rome, Cairo and the London Covent Garden Opera followed . This was followed by studio recordings for large record companies: Jouatte as solo tenor with the Grand Orchester Radio France is counted among the best Berlioz interpretations today . There are also u. a. a complete recording of Gounod's Faust with him in the title role on Columbia Records .

After the war he retired from the stage and accepted a position as professor at the Paris Academy of Music. He taught in his master class from 1946 to 1962. His main students were Régine Crespin , Alain Fondary , Mady Mesplé and Roger Soyer . After his retirement he retired to the Atlantic coast in the Charente-Maritime department and died seven years later in La Rochelle .

Honors

In 1953, Georges Jouatte was awarded the Order of Merit of the Legion of Honor in the Chevalier class.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.filmportal.de/thema/die-entstehung-des-deutschen-tonfilms | Tobis
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French movie poster / materials) 
3. ↑ Georges Jouatte, tenor: Les yeux de femmes , Paris Pathé 1935. on YouTube
4. ^ Requiem de Berlioz Jean Fournet 1944 on YouTube