Vanni Marcoux
Jean Emile Diogène (Giovanni "Vanni" Emilio Diogenio) Marcoux (born June 12, 1877 in Turin , † October 21, 1962 in Paris ) was a French singer ( bass baritone ).
Marcoux had his first singing lessons at the conservatory in his hometown and made his debut at the age of seventeen as Sparafucile in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at the Turin Opera. He completed a law degree and studied singing with Frédéric Boyer at the Paris Conservatory . He made his debut in France in 1899 in Bayonne as Frère Laurent in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette . After appearances in various provincial theaters in 1905 he sang Basilio in Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Opera House in London, in 1906 Bertram in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, in 1908 Mephisto in Gounod's Faust at the Paris Opera and in 1910 the old Hebrew in Camille Saint-Saëns ' Samson et Dalila at La Scala in Milan .
He made his debut at the Paris Opera in 1909 as Guido Colonna in Henri Février's Monna Vanna . For the next forty years he was a celebrity of Parisian musical life with appearances at the opera and the Opéra-Comique . In addition to the title role in Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte (the greatest success of his career), he sang in numerous world premieres of contemporary operas, such as Raoul Gunsbourg's Lysistrata , Max d'Ollones L'Arlequin , Henry Févriers La Femme nue , Massenet's Panurge and L'Aiglon by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert .
In 1912 Marcoux was invited by the Boston Opera Company and sang Golaud in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande . In the following year he appeared with the Chicago Grand Opera Company in the roles of Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann . In 1919 he made a guest appearance at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. From 1938 he taught at the Paris Conservatory. After retiring from the opera stage in 1948, he directed the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux until 1951 .
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- Great Singers of the Past - Vanni Marcoux
- Forgotten Opera Singers - Vanni Marcoux
- Opéra magazine - Vanni Marcoux
- Vanni Marcoux in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Marcoux, Vanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcoux, Jean Emile Diogène; Marcoux, Giovanni Emilio Diogenio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1962 |
| Place of death | Paris |