Lassalle, Jean
(1847–1909)> BASS
Lassalle, Jean (14 December 1847, Lyons; 7 September 1909, Paris), bass, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris before making his debut at Liége in 1868. He appeared next in the north and south of France, Holland, and Belgium again before making his Paris debut as Guillaume Tell at the Le Peletier theatre on 9 June 1872. After the opera house in the rue Le Peletier was destroyed by fire, he performed at the new theatre built for the company of the National Academy of Music. His first two parts…