Jean baptiste faure biography meaning
Jean baptiste faure biography meaning
Jean baptiste faure biography meaning and pronunciation...
Jean-Baptiste Faure
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Jean-Baptiste Faure (15 January, 1830 - 9 November, 1914) was a celebrated Frenchoperaticbaritone and art collector of great significance.
He also composed a number of classical songs, one of which, Les Rameaux (The Palms), is still famous in the English-speaking world.
Career
Faure was born in Moulins. A choirboy in his youth, he entered the Paris Conservatory in 1851 and made his operatic debut the following year at the Opéra-Comique, as Pygmalion in Victor Massé's Galathée.
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He remained at the Opéra-Comique for over seven years, creating the Marquis d'Erigny in Manon Lescaut (1856) and Hoël in Le Pardon de Ploërmel (1859), among seven premieres at that house.
He debuted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1860 as Hoël, and at the Paris Opéra in 1861.
He would sing at the Paris Opera every season until 1869 and then again in 1872-76 and 1