Maurice Renaud

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Maurice Renaud , actually Maurice Arnold Croneau (born July 24, 1861 in Bordeaux , † October 16, 1933 in Paris ), was a French opera singer ( baritone ).

Renaud began his musical training at the Paris Conservatory , but soon moved to the Brussels Conservatory , where he studied with Auguste Dupont and François-Auguste Gevaert . From 1883 to 1890 he was first baritone at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , where he appeared in the world premieres of Ernest Reyer's operas Sigurd (1884) and Salammbô (1890).

In 1890 he made his debut at the Opéra-Comique in Paris as Prince Karnac in Edouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys . In the following year he was engaged at the Paris Opera , where he was first baritone until 1904. He made his debut here as Nelusko in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine and sang roles in operas by Wagner (Beckmesser, Wolfram and Telramund), Mozart (Don Giovanni) and by French composers. He appeared as a guest at the Paris Opera until 1914.

On his first trip to the USA in 1893, Renaud performed in New Orleans, Chicago and Boston. In 1897 he made his debut at the Covent Garden Opera as Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser at the side of Emma Eames and Ernest van Dyck . During this time he appeared with singers such as Pol Plançon , Lilli Lehmann , Lillian Nordica , Emmy Destinn , Selma Kurz , Enrico Caruso and Marcel Journet and had guest appearances in St. Petersburg, Berlin and Monte Carlo.

In 1906 Oscar Hammerstein I engaged him at the Manhattan Opera House , where he appeared with Nellie Melba and Mary Garden and had great success as Athanaël in Jules Massenet's Thaïs , in Don Giovanni and as Hérode in Massenet's Hérodiade . In 1910 he made his debut as Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera alongside Nellie Melba, Florencio Constatino and Adamo Didur . During the First World War he gave concerts for the Allied troops and was wounded at the front. He returned as a war invalid and had to retire from the stage in 1919. His last appearance was in a silent film from 1920.

In 2019, the Monaco Post Office dedicated a special stamp to him.

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  1. ^ Opera Singers 2019. In: Stampworld.com. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .