Thomas Salignac

as Pedro "La Habanera" Laparra CREATOR 1908 opera Comique

Thomas Salignac
(Eustase Thomas-Salignac)
1867-1943
French Tenor

Studied at the Paris Conservatry under Victor Alphonse Duvernoy . Debut in 1893 at the Opéra-Comique in " Richard Coeur-de-Lion " Debut at the Metropolitan New York in 1896 as Don Jose "Carmen" . Sang at Covent Garden London 1897-1899 and then returned to the Metropolitan 1898-1903 alternating with Covent Garden . Returned to the Opera Comique in 1905 .became a Professor of singing at the Fontainebleau American Conservatory in 1923