Roux, Michel

Performer

Michel Roux was a French baritone, an established principal at the Paris Opéra who also enjoyed an international career. He was born in Angoulême on 1 September 1924 and died in Paris on 4 February 1998. Roux studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire and in Paris, making his operatic debut on 5 October 1949 in Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique, going on to sing inLes Contes d'Hoffmann, Manon and Pelléas and Mélisande, creating l'Aveugle in Madame Bovary in 1951, and remaining a principal singer there until 1955. [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• The Nightingale
• Ivan IV
• Mass No. 15 in C major, K. 317 - Coronation
• The damnation of Faust, H 111
• The acrobats