Pierre-Aurèle Asselin
Pierre-Aurèle Asselin (born December 2, 1881 in Sainte-Famille , L'Île-d'Orléans , † December 27, 1964 in Montreal ) was a French-Canadian opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Asselin moved to Québec around the turn of the century and practiced the craft of furrier there all his life . He sang in church choirs and did not appear for the first time as a vocal soloist in the Ladies' Morning Musical Club in Québec until 1916 . In the same year he received a contract with the New York label Columbia Records , for which he recorded arias from French operas and numbers from operettas.
In 1917 Asselin sang the tenor part in the oratorio Les Sept Paroles du Christ by Théodore Dubois in Montreal Cathedral . From 1918 to 1920 Edison Records made several recordings on phonograph cylinders with Asselin as part of the Royal Purple Grand Opera series . In addition to opera arias (including by Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod ), he sang works such as Minuit, chrétiens / Cantique de Noël by Adolphe Adam .
In 1918 he appeared at the Cartier Theater and the Orpheum Theater in operas with the singer Blanche Gonthier . In 1921 he recorded eight opera arias by Benjamin Godard , Gaetano Donizetti and Massenet for Columbia in New York and a version of Gabriel Fauré's Sur le lac d'argent in a duet with Blanche Gonthier . His last recordings were made in 1929 on the Brunswick Records label . Here he sang the aria La rêve de Des Grieux from Massenet's opera Manon and three songs by Édouard Lalo , Ange Flégier and Carl Bohm .
Asselin ended his musical career in the 1930s. His sister Marie-Anne Asselin was also known as a singer, his great-nephew André Asselin as a pianist.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Généalogie Pierre-Aurele Asselin in: www.nosorigines.qc.ca; accessed on August 20, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asselin, Pierre-Aurèle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Canadian opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Famille , Ile-d'Orléans |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1964 |
| Place of death | Montreal |