Legros, Joseph (8 September 1730, Monampteuil; 20 December 1793, La Rochelle), singer, was a choirboy in the cathedral of Laon, when François Rebel and François Francoeur learned of his exceptional voice and recruited him for the Opéra (see seventeenth-century volume for Rebel and Francoeur). The youth made his debut in Paris as Titon in Titon et l’Aurore on 1 March 1764. He did not learn the art of imparting animation to his voice until Gluck’s arrival on the operatic scene in the French…