Jean Berthelier
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Jean-François Berthelier (born December 14, 1830 in Panissières ; died September 29, 1888 in Paris ) was a French operetta singer.
Life
Jean Berthelier was the son of a lawyer and grew up in a foster family after his early death. He was first a clerk in a bookstore in Lyon , where he also appeared in extras at the Théâtre des Célestins . In 1849 he made his debut at the Poitiers Theater as Fernando in Donizetti's La Favorita . In 1851 he came to Paris, where he first appeared as a singer in café concerts and composed his own pieces under the stage name Berthel. The Paris Conservatory turned down his application for singing training. On July 5, 1855, Jacques Offenbach's operetta theater Bouffes-Parisiens opened with the world premiere of the two-person play Les deux Aveugles , in which Berthelier sang Giraffier with great audiences.
Berthelier became the buffo for Offenbach's operetta productions in the Bouffes-Parisiens, at the Théâtre des Variétés , at the Théâtre des Nouveautés and in the Palais Royal . Among other things, he sang in the Offenbach operettas Une Nuit Blanche , Le Violoneux , Ba-ta-clan (all 1855). Berthelier is also said to have discovered Hortense Schneider , who then became the great diva in the Offenbach operettas. In addition to her as the “young chicken”, he played the role of the “old rooster” in Offenbach's Jeune poule et vieux coq in 1858 .
Between 1856 and 1862 Berthelier sang in twelve opera productions at the Paris Opéra-Comique , where he participated in the world premiere of the opera Maître Pathelin by François Bazin , as well as in Le mariage extravagant by Eugène Gautier and in Barkouf by Offenbach.
After the decline of Offenbach's operetta in the 1870s, Berthelier hired himself out as an entertainer and singer in variety shows. Among the couplets he performed, Ah! Que c'est comme un bouquet de fleurs from the operetta Le petit ébéniste great success. Berthelier appeared in 1877 as steward Zappoli in the French production of La tzigane by Johann Strauss (son) .
literature
- Berthelier, Jean . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, pp. 1931f.
- Patrick O'Connor: Jean-François Berthelier . In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera . London: Macmillan, 1997, Volume 1, p. 41
- Siegfried Kracauer : Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time . Edited by Ingrid Belke. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005, ISBN 3-518-58338-7
Web links
- Jean Berthelier at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Berthelier, Jean-François , at Groove
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles-François Plantade : Le Baptême du p'tit ébéniste: scène de famille , score (on the title Berthelier), at Médiathèque Musicale de Paris
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthelier, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berthelier, Jean-François (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French operetta singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Panissières |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1888 |
| Place of death | Paris |