Battaille, Charles-Amable
Battaille, Charles-Amable
Battaille, Charles-Amable, French bass and pedagogue; b. Nantes, Sept. 30, 1822; d. Paris, May 2, 1872. He was a pupil of the younger García at the Paris Cons. On June 22, 1848, he made his operatic debut as Sulpice at the Paris Opéra-Comique. He created roles in operas by Thomas, Adam, Halévy, and Meyerbeer. From 1851 he also taught at the Paris Cons. A throat disorder forced him to quit the operatic stage in 1857, but he then sang again from 1860 until retiring permanently in 1863. He publ. a singing method (two vols., 1861, 1863).
Bibliography
J. Joiner, C.A. B.: Pioneer in Vocal Sciences and the Teaching of Singing (Lanham, Md., 1998).
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