Tribou, Denis-François
(1695–1761)> VOCALIST
Tribou, Denis-François (1695 ?; 14 January 1761, Paris), vocalist, made his debut at the Opéra on 13 November 1721 as Le Soleil in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Phaéton, and he was so well received by the public that it was decided that he should do the title role of the same work in his next appearance (see seventeenth-century volume for Lully and Phaéton). He remained at the Palais-Royal until 1739, and his career was quite successful. He retired on a pension of 1,500 livres, and his friend Marmontel…