Roger Bourdin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roger Bourdin (14 June 1900, Levallois-Perret - 14 September 1973, Paris) was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory. His career was largely based in France. Bourdin studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he was a pupil of Andr Gresse and Jacques Isnardon. He made his professional debut at the Op ra-Comique in 1922, as Lescaut in Manon. His debut at the Palais Garnier took place in 1942, in Henri Rabaud's M rouf, savetier du Caire. The major part of his career was to be spent between these two theatres, where he created some 30 roles. Bourdin seldom performed outside France, but did a few guest appearances at the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, and the Teatro Col n in Buenos Aires. He also sang in the first performance of surviving fragments of Chabrier's Vaucochard et fils Ier on 22 April 1941 at the Salle du Conservatoire with Germaine Cernay, conducted by Roger D sormi re.