About Edmond Cabel
Lived 1832 – 1888 (aged 56). Edmond Cabel was a Belgian opera singer.
Edmond Cabel (18 November 1832 – December 1888) was a French operatic tenor.
He was born Edmond-Antoine-Auguste Dreulette in Namur. He was the brother of the famous coloratura soprano Marie Cabel and adopted her married name Cabu (and later, the family's stage name Cabel).
He studied singing at the Conservatoire de Paris, and on 22 April 1855 sang Jacob (Isacco) in a student performance of the first two acts of Rossini's La pie voleuse (as adapted into French by Castil-Blaze) and on 29 June, Artémidore in the first three acts of Gluck's Armide (both under Jules Pasdeloup as the conductor), and won a second prize in opéra comique for 1855.
From 1871 to 1872 he appeared at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. He died in Brussels.
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Who was Edmond Cabel?
operatic tenor
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Edmond Cabel was born on 18 November 1832.
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Edmond Cabel died on 1 December 1888.
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Edmond Cabel was an opera singer.
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Edmond Cabel was Belgian.
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