Henneveux' biography is all but unknown, but since his name is not quite common, I suspect he may be the Jean-Guy Henneveux who was
born on 3 April 1935 in Dunkerque and died on 13 August 1996 in Savigny-sur-Orge, as per French public registers of births and deaths.
If so, he must have got a relatively late start: the earliest references to him that I find are two appearances in small roles at the Festival de
Lyon in July 1966 (in Henze's Prinz von Homburg and as Erster Geharnischter in Zauberflöte), followed by another small role in
Gilbert Bécaud's Opéra d'Aran for the Opéra de Wallonie in Liège, a production that also went on tour to
Bucharest (October 1969). In that period, Henneveux also participated in French radio recordings of Sampiero Corso by Henri Tomasi (1967)
and Die lustige Witwe, in French of course (1970).
In the 1970s and 1980s, Henneveux sang a variety of main and secondary roles. In Rochefort, he was Sylvain (Les dragons de Villars) and
Alfredo in May 1975, Cavaradossi and Gounod's Faust in May 1976, Pinkerton in May 1978, and Roméo in November 1981 (the same production
was staged in Troyes the same month, with Henneveux as well). All quite difficult to imagine if you listen to Henneveux' Danilo... In Tours, he
sang regularly from 1975 to 1985, mostly comprimario parts in operetta, but also Barbe-Bleue (1985). He sang small roles, as well, in Aufstieg
und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Angers, October 1971; Strasbourg, January 1972) or in Tomasi's Don Juan de Mañara (Nantes, April
1984). As far as leading roles again, he was Sou-Chong in Das Land des Lächelns at the Grand Casino in Geneva in April 1984, and Le
Brésilien in Vie parisienne in Limoges in December 1986 and January 1987.
Many thanks to Claude Ribou for the top picture and for his help with the biography.
Source for bottom picture: Grand Théâtre de Limoges, Vie parisienne playbill, 1986/87 season
Reference 1: Opéra de Tours archives; reference 2; reference 3; reference 4: Journal de Genève, 3 April 1984; reference 5: Revista Teatrul, October
1969
