1925 Belgian ARMAND CRABBE PAGLIACCI PROLOGO78
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Great, early 1925 electric recording of Belgian Baritone
ARMAND CRABBE
in a very impressive rendition PAGLIACCI PROLOGO 1&2 in french
12" Victor 78 rpm record
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EXCELLENT MINUS, unworn scuffs Armand Crabbé (23 April 1883, Brussels - 24 July 1947, Brussels) was a Belgian operatic baritone. In 1904 he made his professional opera debut at La Monnaie as the Nightwatchman in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He was a leading performer at the Royal Opera House in London from 1906-1914 and again in 1937. He performed with the Manhattan Opera House from 1907-1910 and with the Chicago Grand Opera Company from 1910-1914. He made several appearances with the Teatro Colón and La Scala during the 1920s. He was active at the Vlaamse Opera up until his retirement in the early 1940s.Crabbé, Armand, Bariton, * 23.4.1883 Vandergoten bei Brüssel, † 24.7.1947 Brüssel (nach einem Herzanfall); er war Schüler von Gilles und Désiré Demest in Brüssel; weitere Ausbildung durch Cottone in Mailand. Er debütierte 1904 am Théâtre de la Monnaie Brüssel in der Rolle des Nachtwächters in den »Meistersingern« noch im gleichen Jahr sang er in der dortigen Premiere von »Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame« von Massenet und 1905 in der Uraufführung der Oper »Martylle« von Albert Dupuis. Während seiner gesamten Karriere übernahm er kleine Partien unter dem Pseudonym Mr. Morin, große Rollen unter seinem eigentlichen Namen Armand Crabbé. 1906 trat er an der Covent Garden Oper London in der Premiere von »Le Jongleur de Notre Dame« sowie in »Armide« von Gluck auf. Bis 1914 gastierte er Jahr für Jahr an diesem Haus, u.a. als Valentin im »Faust« von Gounod, als Ford im »Falstaff« von Verdi und als Silvio im »Bajazzo«. Nach Gastspielen in Paris ging er 1907 an das Manhattan Opera House New York. Hier trat er nun auch in der amerikanischen Erstaufführung von Massenets »Le Jongleur de Notre Dame« und in »Salome« von Richard Strauss auf. 1910-14 gehörte er der Chicago-Philadelphia Opera Company an, bei der er eine Vielzahl von Partien sang und in der Uraufführung der Oper »Natoma« von Victor Herbert mitwirkte (13.12.1911). Am Manhattan Opera House wie an der Covent Garden Oper wirkte er 1908 bzw. 1909 auch in den Erstaufführungen von Debussys »Pelléas et Mélisande« mit. 1914 kam er an die Mailänder Scala (Antrittsrolle Titelheld im »Rigoletto«). Bis 1929 war er oft an diesem Opernhaus zu hören, u.a. überraschend 1920 in der Tenorpartie des Herodes in »Salome«. In den Jahren 1916-26 war er alljährlich am Teatro Colón von Buenos Aires zu Gast, wo er ungewöhnlich beliebt war, 1917 in der Premiere von Rabauds »Marouf« sang. und dort im gleichen Jahr an der Uraufführung der Oper »Ardid de Amor« von Carlos Pedrell teilnahm; einen seiner größten Erfolge hatte er am Teatro Colón als Figaro im »Barbier von Sevilla«. 1924 bereiste er mit einer Kammeroper Südamerika. 1926 war er an der Pariser Opéra-Comique als Marouf in der Oper gleichen Namens von Rabaud sehr erfolgreich. Rabaud hatte diese Partie eigens für seine Stimme transponiert. Weitere Glanzrollen des Künstlers waren der Figaro im »Barbier von Sevilla« und der Beckmesser in den »Meistersingern«. Er sang am 12.1.1929 an der Scala in der Uraufführung der Oper »Il Re« von Giordano. Dort gastierte er 1937 nochmals als Titelheld in Puccinis »Gianni Schicchi«. Gegen Ende seiner Karriere trat er hauptsächlich an den Opernhäusern von Brüssel und Antwerpen auf. Noch nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gab er Konzerte. Zugleich Gesanglehrer in Brüssel; einer seiner Schüler war der Bariton Gilbert Dubuc. - Vortrefflich geschulte, ausdrucksgewandte Stimme, zumal in den hohen Lagen von klassischer Schönheit. Er schrieb gesangpädagogische Werke: »Conseils sur l'art du chant« (Brüssel, 1931), »L'art d'Orphée« (Brüssel, 1933). Schallplatten auf Kanadisch-Victor (1909), Fonotipia (um 1915), elektrische Aufnahmen auf HMV und Decca (um 1933). [Nachtrag] Crabbé, Armand; an der Mailänder Scala gastierte er 1924-29 u.a. als Rigoletto, als Marcello in »La Bohème«, als Beckmesser in den »Meistersingern« und als Lescaut in »Manon Lescaut« von Puccini. 1937 war er an der Covent Garden Oper London nochmals als Puccinis Gianni Schicchi zu hören.
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