Gabriel Bacquier |

Gabriel Bacquier

Debut 1950 (Nice). Since 1953 in Brussels (debut as Figaro), since 1958 at the Grand Opera. In 1962 Spanish. Count Almaviva at the Glyndebourne Festival. In 1964 he performed for the first time at Covent Garden (in the same part). In the same year he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera (part of the High Priest in “Samson and Delilah”). Participant in the premiere of op. “The Last Savage” Menotti (1963, Paris). Among the performances of the last years of the role of Sancho Panza in Massenet’s Don Quixote (1982, Venice; 1992, Monte Carlo), Bartolo (1993, Covent Garden) and others. Among the roles are also Scarpia, Falstaff, Iago, Leporello, Malatesta in op. “Don Pasquale”, Golo in op. “Pelleas and Mélisande” Debussy and others. Carried out many others. records. Among them is the outstanding recording of the “four demons” in op. The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach (dir. Boning, Decca), title part in William Tell (French version, dir. Gardelli, EMI), part of the King of Clubs in op. The Love for Three Oranges by Prokofiev (conducted by Nagano, Virgin Classics).

E. Tsodokov