Louis Noguéra

Louis Noguéra was a French bass-baritone (born in Algiers on 12 October 1910, died in Paris on 8 March 1984 ) who enjoyed a long career in Paris—principally at the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique but also elsewhere in France and abroad, and who left some recordings representative of his repertoire.

Life and career Born Louis Claver, his career commenced in 1935, as a knight in Parsifal, at the Opéra.

During his career at the Palais Garnier, Noguéra went on to sing roles such as Wagner and Valentin in Faust, the pilot in Tristan und Isolde, the Nightwatchman and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Apollo in Alceste (Gluck), Torello in Monna Vanna, several parts in Mârouf, savetier du Caire, Phorbas in Œdipe, Alberich in Das Rheingold, the Grand Prêtre de Moloch in Salammbô, the title role in Rigoletto, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, Masetto and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Iago in Otello, and Ali in Les Indes galantes.

In 1949 he appeared as Shylock in a revival of Reynaldo Hahn's Le marchand de Venise alongside Denise Duval, Jean Giraudeau, Louis Froumenty, and Huc-Santana, conducted by D.-E. Inghelbrecht. In La Basoche at Monte Carlo in 1954, he sang with Denise Duval, Nadine Renaux and Pierre Mollet, conducted by Albert Wolff. In December 1965 he was the producer of the premiere performances of La Princesse de Clèves by Jean Françaix at Rouen's Théâtre des Arts (libretto by the composer and Marc Lanjean); Genevieve Marcaux and Marcel Huylbrock played the lovers, with Jacques Jansen as the discreet husband, conducted by Pierre-Michel Le Conte.

Outside France he sang at Covent Garden in London in 1937, and in Belgium and Italy.