Dalmorès, Charles (real name, Henry Alphonse Boin)
Dalmorès, Charles (real name, Henry Alphonse Boin)
Dalmorès, Charles (real name, Henry Alphonse Boin) , French tenor; b. Nancy, Jan. 1, 1871;d. Los Angeles, Dec. 6, 1939. After taking first prizes at the local Cons, for solfeggio and horn at 17, he received from the city of Nancy a stipend for study at the Paris Cons., where he took first prize for horn at 19; played in the Colonne Orch. and the Lamoureux Orch.; at 23, became a prof. of horn at the Lyons Cons. His vocal teacher was Dauphin. His stage debut as a tenor took place on Oct. 6, 1899, at Rouen as Siegfried; later he sang at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (1900–06) and at London’s Covent Garden (1904–05; 1909–11). On Dec. 7, 1906, he made his debut as Faust at the Manhattan Opera House in N.Y., then was with the Chicago Opera Co. (1910–18). His repertoire was large, and included Wagnerian as well as French operas; in Chicago he sang Tristan and the title role in the first performance of Parsifal to be presented there.
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