Dérivis, Prosper
(*1808)> SINGER
Dérivis, Prosper (28 October 1808, Paris; ?), singer and the son of the singer Henri-Etienne Dérivis , entered the Conservatoire on 8 April 1829 (see eighteenth-century volume for Henri-Etienne Dérivis). He distinguished himself as a student of declamation and singing under the direction of Adolphe Nourrit and Pellegrini , and he made his debut at the Opéra on 21 September 1831 as the protagonist of Gioacchino Rossini’s Moïse . His powerful bass voice made him eligible for the roles of kings…