Melchissédec, Pierre Léon (7 May 1843, Paris; 23 March 1925, Paris), singer, studied at the Conservatoire in Paris and spent the first decade of his public career as a baritone at the Opéra-Comique. He went to the Théâtre-Lyrique in 1876 and did not make his debut at the Opéra until 1879, when he sang Nevers in Les Huguenots for his first performance at the Garnier Palace on 7 November. The year after his debut at the Opéra, 1880, the baritone was cast as Alphonse in La Favorite, the…