Salvator Issaurel

Salvator Issaurel , born Guillaume Issaurel , also known as Mr. Salvator (born January 23, 1871 in Marseille , † December 4, 1944 in Montreal ) was a French opera singer ( tenor ) and music teacher.

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Issaurel studied singing in his hometown and later at the Paris Conservatory . He made his debut at the Opéra-Comique in Paul Lacôme's La Nuit de St-Jean in 1898 and in the same year took part in the world premiere of Vincent d'Indy's lyrical drama Fervaal under the direction of the composer. With the opera company Durieu-Nicosias he came to Canada in 1899 and performed under the name Salvator Issaurel at the Monument national in Montreal and the Academy of Music in Quebec .

He traveled with the troupe to the USA and Cuba and sang Faust at the French Opera in New Orleans in 1900 for financial reasons . He returned to France via Belgium and Holland in 1903. There he interrupted his singing career and took lessons from Jean-Baptiste Faure and Jean de Reszke .

In 1907 he returned to the stage at the Théâtre de la Gaité and appeared there in Benjamin Godard's La Vivandière . In 1908 he married the soprano Béatrice La Palme , with whom he had already worked in 1903 in Marseille. Constant stage fright caused him to end his active singing career and he and his wife opened a singing studio in London in 1909.

In 1911 both went to Montreal, where Issaurel taught at the Columbian Conservatory and briefly at the Canadian Academy of Music . La Palme also ended her active career in 1914, and she and Issaurel opened a vocal studio that lasted until his death in 1944. Here he had numerous students, including Pierrette Alarie , Camille Bernard , Germaine Bruyère , Louis Chartier , Paul-Émile Corbeil , Albert Cornellier , Jeanne Desjardins , Graziella Dumaine , Roger Filiatrault , Marie-José Forgues , Jacques Gérard , Blanche Gonthier , Charles Goulet , Émile and Romain Gour , Jules Jacob , Jean-Paul Jeannotte , Joseph-Victor Ladéroute , Marthe Létourneau , Anna Malenfant , Ulysse Paquin , Gérard Paradis , Jacqueline Plouffe , Léopold Simoneau , Honoré Vaillancourt and Édouard Woolley .

Web links

• Salvator Issaurel at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Salvator Issaurel