Valère Mayer

born 1902 in Lodelinsart

Valère Mayer singsMignon: Ô filles de bohème, with Lucienne Tragin

Repertory

La muette de Portici (Lorenzo) – Brussels, Monnaie, 25 August 1930
Quentin Durward (Le Maugrabin) – Brussels, Monnaie, 13 October 1930
Pagliacci (Beppe) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1930–36
Tannhäuser (Walther) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1930–36
Rhena (Taddeo) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1931
Die Fledermaus (Alfred) – Brussels, Monnaie, 2 February 1931
Bonsoir Monsieur Pantalon (Lelio) – Brussels, Monnaie, 28 March 1931 Le nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio) – Brussels, Monnaie, 31 March 1931
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (David) – Brussels, Monnaie, 14 April 1931
Patrie (La Trémoille) – Brussels, Monnaie, 10 September 1931
Pikovaja dama (Chekalinskij) – Brussels, Monnaie, 28 November 1931
Fidelio (Jacquino) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1931–36
La route d'émeraude (Van Oostervelde) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1932
Le preziose ridicole (La Grange) – Brussels, Monnaie, 10 January 1932
Wozzeck (Andres) – Brussels, Monnaie, 29 February 1932
Boccaccio/Boccace (Lelio) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1 June 1932
La fille du tambour-major (Griolet) – Brussels, Monnaie, 17 December 1932
Les voitures versées (Armand) – Brussels, Monnaie, 29 December 1932
Le pardon de Ploërmel (Un faucheur) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1932–34
Der Rosenkavalier (Italienischer Sänger) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1933
Aïcha (Chevalier d'Ardye) – Brussels, Monnaie, 18 January 1933
Le marchand de Venise (Roi du Maroc) – Brussels, Monnaie, 30 January 1933
Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos) – Brussels, Monnaie, 8 February 1933
La farsa amorosa (Frulla) – Brussels, Monnaie, 27 November 1933
Der tapfere Soldat (Spiridoff) – Brussels, Monnaie, 16 December 1933
Richard Coeur de Lion (Charles) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1934
Parsifal (Zweiter Knappe) – Brussels, Monnaie, 24 March 1934
Esclarmonde (Énéas) – Brussels, Monnaie, 5 May 1934
Marouf, savetier du Caire (Fellah & Muezzin) – Brussels, Monnaie, 19 May 1934
L'Africaine (Don Alvar) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1935
Roméo et Juliette (Tybalt) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1935
Les huguenots (Tavannes) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1935
Francesca da Rimini (Malatestino) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1935
Die Teresina (Daniel) – Brussels, Monnaie, 3 January 1935
Giuditta (Séraphin) – Brussels, Monnaie, 17 May 1935
La fille de Madame Angot (Ange Pitou) – Brussels, Monnaie, 7 August 1935
Si j'étais roi (Piféar) – Brussels, Monnaie, 16 August 1935
Das Dreimäderlhaus (Franz) – Brussels, Monnaie, 17 August 1935
Fra Diavolo (Lorenzo) – Brussels, Monnaie, 20 December 1935
Salome (Narraboth) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1936
Zigeunerliebe (Jonel) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1936
La fille du régiment (Tonio) – Brussels, Monnaie, 1936
Orphée aus enfers (Orphée) – Brussels, Monnaie, 17 July 1936

After 1937, Mayer sang operetta baritone roles in France under the name Jean Valère.

Reference: Les grandes voix du Hainaut à l'époque du 78 tours, EMI LP album, 1985
Richard T. Soper: Belgian opera houses and singers, Spartanburg (South Carolina), 1999
Online archives of La Monnaie

Picture source: the stunning Flickr channel of Claude-Pascal Perna


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