Carvalho, Léon Carvaille
(1825–1897)> MANAGER
Carvalho, Léon Carvaille DIT (1825, Port-Louis; 26 December 1897, Paris), French theatre manager, started his theatrical career as a bass at the Opéra-Comique on 2 June 1849, when he filled the part of Scapin in Gilles Ravisseur . He left the Opéra-Comique in 1855 to assume the duties of director at the Théâtre-Lyrique, and, in 1870, he undertook the direction of the Théâtre Khédival in Cairo to supervise the world premiere of Aïda there in 1871. M. Carvalho left North Africa to return to Paris…