Mario Altéry (12 September 1892 – 13 March 1974) was a French operatic tenor who performed with the Opéra de Paris and

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...

as well as singing in numerous

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

s. Born in Nice, his real name was Philippe Altare.

Life and career

Altéry was born in Nice and made his debut at the

on 30 May 1935 as Gérald in Léo Delibes's '' Lakmé''. He went on to perform there as Count Almaviva in '' The Barber of Seville'', Don José in ''

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'', Nadir in ''

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'', Pédro in

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's ''La Habanera'', le Noctambule in ''

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'', the title role in ''

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'', Des Grieux, in ''

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'', the title role in '' Werther'', Wilhelm Meister in '' Mignon'', Félicien in

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's ''Le rêve'', Vincent in '' Mireille'', and Philémon in ''

Philémon et Baucis ('' Philemon and Baucis'') is an opera in three acts by Charles Gounod with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The opera is based on the tale of Baucis and Philemon In Ovid's moralizing fables collected as ''Metamorphoses'' i ...

''. He also performed in the Italian repertoire as Canio on ''

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'', Turridu in '' Cavalleria rusticana'', Cavaradossi in '' Tosca'', Rodolfo in '' La bohème'', and Alfredo in ''

La traviata ''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...

''. In 1942, he appeared at the Opéra de Paris as Mylio in '' Le Roi d'Ys'' alongside Suzanne Juyol, Solange Renaux, and José Beckmans in performances conducted by François Ruhlmann. He also appeared with company as the Duke of Mantua in '' Rigoletto''. Altéry died in Hyères on the French Riviera at the age of 81. His daughter,

Mathé Altéry Mathé Altéry (, born Marie-Thérèse Renée Micheline Altare, 12 September 1927) is a French soprano prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. Mathé Altéry is the daughter of French tenor Mario Altéry. Career Altéry was born in Paris. She began h ...

(born 1927), is a

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

noted for her performances in operetta and French song.

Sources

*Peschke, Michael (ed.) (2006)
''International Encyclopedia of Pseudonyms'', Volume 1
Walter de Gruyter. *Wolff, Stéphane (1953). ''Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900-1950)''. Paris: André Bonne 1892 births 1974 deaths French operatic tenors Musicians from Nice 20th-century French male opera singers {{opera-singer-stub