Albert Alvarez & Louise Grandjean by Benque

Albert Alvarez as Hercules & Louise Grandjean as Delanira in 'Astarte" Leroux
CREATOR ROLES

LOUISE GRANDJEAN
(1870–1934)
French Soprano

Studied at the Paris Conservatory before making her professional opera debut in 1893 at the Opéra Comique as Isabella in Le Pré aux clercs.She was Alice Ford in France's first production of Verdi's Falstaff in 1894. she appeared in world premieres of Xavier Leroux's Astarté (1901), Jules Massenet's Ariane (1906), and Fernand Le Borne's La Catalane (1907In Monte Carlo she sang in the premieres of Eugène d'Harcourt's Le Tasse (1903) and Alfred Bruneau's Naïs Micoulin (1907) among other roles.

ALBERT ALVAREZ
(Albert Raymond Gourron)
( May 16, 1861 - February 26, 1933)
French Tenor

Debut in Faust (Faust) March 14, 1892 at the Opéra de Paris , He sang Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, 1892); Lohengrin (Lohengrin, 1892); Samson and Delilah (Samson, 1893); the Valkyrie (Siegmund, 1893); Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser, 1895); Aida (Radames, 1895); the Favorite (Fernand, 1896); Sigurd (Sigurd, 1896); the Huguenots (Raoul, 1897); the Prophet (John, 1898); Fatherland! (Kerloo, 1900); The Cid (Rodrigue, 1900); Othello (Othello, 1903); Il Trovatore (Manrique, 1904); Pagliacci (Canio, 1906); Salammbô (Matho, 1906). He sang in the premiere at the Opera, November 10, 1897, the masters singers of Nuremberg (Walther) Richard Wagner [French version of Alfred Ernst]; December 11, 1904, Tristan and Isolde (Tristan) by Richard Wagner [French version of Alfred Ernst].
He created on 16 March 1894 Thaïs (Nicias) by Jules Massenet; February 08, 1895 the Black Mountain (Mirko) of Augusta Holmès; on December 18, 1895 Frédégonde (Merowig) to Ernest Guiraud; on April 24, 1896, Helle (Jean) of Alphonse Duvernoy. February 19, 1897 Messidor (Guillaume) of Alfred Bruneau; December 23, 1898 the Burgundian (Gauthier) of Paul Vidal; February 15, 1901 Astarte (Hercule) Xavier Leroux; on April 17, 1904, the son of Camille Erlanger Star (Bar-Kokeba