Elio Sylva by Pierre Petit

ELOI SYLVA
1843 - 8 September 1919
Belgian tenor.
He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and in Paris with the tenor Duprez . He made his debut at Nantes (some sources give his debut at Lyon in 1868). After appearances in The Hague and Lyon, His debut at the Paris Opera (15 May 1872) as Robert in “ Robert le diable.” by Meyerbeer, the Metropolitan Opera (debut John of Leyden in Meyerbeer's “Le prophète”, 27 November 1885).He also appeared in Berlin , St. Petersburg