Léon Carvalho (18 January 1825 â€" 29 December 1897) was a French
impresario and stage director.Born Léon Carvaille in Port Louis,
Mauritius, he came to France at an early age. He studied at the Paris
Conservatory and sang as a baritone at the Opéra-Comique (1850â€"55),
where he met the soprano Marie Caroline Miolan, whom he married in
1853.[1]He then gave up singing and took on the direction of the
Théâtre Lyrique in 1856, where he presented works by Beethoven,
Mozart, Rossini, Weber, but most importantly opened his doors to new
French composers turned down by the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique,
such as Berlioz (he staged the first, very incomplete, performance of
Les Troyens in 1863), Gounod, Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Delibes. He also
staged the premiere of the revised version in a French translation of
Verdi's Macbeth in 1865.
impresario and stage director.Born Léon Carvaille in Port Louis,
Mauritius, he came to France at an early age. He studied at the Paris
Conservatory and sang as a baritone at the Opéra-Comique (1850â€"55),
where he met the soprano Marie Caroline Miolan, whom he married in
1853.[1]He then gave up singing and took on the direction of the
Théâtre Lyrique in 1856, where he presented works by Beethoven,
Mozart, Rossini, Weber, but most importantly opened his doors to new
French composers turned down by the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique,
such as Berlioz (he staged the first, very incomplete, performance of
Les Troyens in 1863), Gounod, Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Delibes. He also
staged the premiere of the revised version in a French translation of
Verdi's Macbeth in 1865.
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