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French opera singer and theatre director
Pedro Gailhard
Born Pierre Samson Gailhard
1 August 1848Died 12 October 1918(1918-10-12) (aged 70) Occupation(s) Opera singer, theatre director
Pedro or Pierre Gailhard , full name Pierre Samson Gailhard, (1 August 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a French
opera singer and
theatre director .
[1]
Gifted with an exceptional singing
bass voice, Pedro Gailhard made his debut at the
Opéra-Comique in December 1867,
[1] then sang at the
Opéra Garnier , as Mephisto in
Faust by
Charles Gounod in
1871 , a role which he also sang at Covent Garden.
[2] His interprétation of Leporello in
Don Giovanni by
Mozart was considered remarkable, as was his portrayal of other roles, such as Osmin in Mozart's
Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Kaspar in Weber's
Der Freischütz , the King in Thomas'
Hamlet , Pythéas in Gounod's
Sapho , Saint-Bris and Nevers in Meyerbeer's
Les Huguenots , and Faust in Boito's
Mefistofele .
[3]
Pedro Gailhard was the first lyric artist to be named director of the
Paris Opera ,
[4] which he headed from
1884 to
1891 and from
1893 to
1907 .
[5] He was mentioned as such in the novel
The Phantom of the Opera by
Gaston Leroux .
[6]
Notes
^
a
b Rosenthal, Harold (January 20, 2001).
"Gailhard, Pierre" . Grove Music Online . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 July 2019 .
^
"Covent Garden on record [sound recording] : a history. Volume I, 1870-1904" (Online library record) . New York Public Library . Pearl. Retrieved 30 July 2019 .
^ Kutsch & Riemens 2003, pp. 1608–1609 "Gailhard, Pierre".
^ Gouiffès, Anne-Marie.
"Pedro Gailhard, un artiste lyrique à la direction de l'Opéra de Paris : 1884-1907" (Summary of PhD thesis) . theses.fr . l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur. Retrieved 30 July 2019 .
^ Fontaine 2003, p. 23.
^ Leroux, Gaston (1910).
"Phantom of the Opera" . The Project Gutenberg . Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 30 July 2019 . I have the anecdote, which is quite authentic, from M. Pedro Gailhard himself, the late manager of the Opera.
Bibliography
Anne-Marie Gouiffès, Pedro Gailhard, un artiste lyrique à la direction de l'Opéra de Paris. 1884-1907 , 2000, thèse, dir. D. Pistone, Université Paris Sorbonne.
Fontaine, Gerard (2003). Visages de marbre et d'airain: La collection de bustes du Palais Garnier . Paris: Monum, Éditions du patrimoine.
ISBN
978-2-85822-751-8 .
Kutsch, K. J. ;
Riemens, Leo (2003).
Großes Sängerlexikon (fourth edition, in German). Munich: K. G. Saur.
ISBN
978-3-598-11598-1 .
External links
Preceded byAuguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil
director of the
Paris Opera 1884-1891 With:
Eugène Ritt
Succeeded by
Preceded by
director of the
Paris Opera 1893-1907
Succeeded by
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