Gailhard, Pierre or Pedro (1 August 1848, Toulouse; 12 October 1918, Paris), vocalist, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris and made his theatrical debut as a bass at the Opéra-Comique in 1867 before appearing at the Opéra for the first time on 3 November 1871 as Méphistophélès in Faust. He remained at the Imperial Academy of Music to sing the Inquisitor in L’Africaine, Saint-Bris in Les Huguenots, and Léporello in Don Juan during 1872. In 1873, he did Gaspard in Le Freischütz, and he was cast…