Georges Liccioni
10 February 1932 Marseille – 4 March 2013
In RA format
Liccioni studied voice in his native Marseille, with Pierre Mercadel, a former operetta baritone who was also the
teacher of Charles Burles and Ginès Siréra. In 1957, after winning a first prize at the Voix d'or contest, he made his debut in Avignon
as Vincent. A member of the troupe of the Marseille Opéra for three years, and a guest at various Belgian and French
theaters for the next few seasons, he made an important debut in 1963: at the Capitole in Toulouse as des Grieux in Manon, the
role that he would sing more often than any other in his career, more than 350 times.
The same year, he was hired by the Paris Opéra, whose member he would be until 1975 and where he would continue to appear until
1990 (debut: 13 September 1963 as Duca). He also sang at the Opéra-Comique, and various other French theaters, particularly in
Marseille (where he had one of his greatest successes as Gennaro to Montserrat Caballé's Lucrezia Borgia in 1968).
His repertory was unusually wide, from Mylio or the already mentioned des Grieux to Sigurd, Dick Johnson
(Opéra-Comique, 1969), Don Carlo or indeed Otello; and mostly not at different stages of his career, but actually at the
same time! He sang also Alwa in the French premiere of Berg's Lulu (Marseille, 1965), Stravinsky's Oedipus rex; as Pierre Bezukhov in
Prokofyev's Vojna i mir/War and peace, he appeared not only in Paris and Marseille, but also in Lyon and London. He was Calaf and, for
a change, Puccini's des Grieux in Liège, Pinkerton in Geneva, Julien at the New York City Opera and in Boston, Don José
on a tour across Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Lenskij in Monte Carlo (1969). Already from 1980, he also taught voice, in Angers and in
Bordeaux.
Reference 1, reference 2, reference 3,
reference 4, reference 5: Kutsch & Riemens
Discography Georges Liccioni
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Title
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Author
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Date
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Cast
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Conductor
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Orchestra
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Label
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Catalog #
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Compilation
with no title
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Divers
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?
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Guy
Chauvet (Carmen), Georges Liccioni (Lakmé,Mireille), Colomba Mazzoni (Bohème,Aïda), Géori Boué (Tosca,Butterfly,
Alain Vanzo (Faust), Lucien Huberty (Barbier de Séville)
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Etcheverry
Amati
Allain
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Divers
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Véga
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Studio
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33
T.
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30LT1
3009
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Compilation
with no title
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Divers
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?
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Géori
Boué (Carmen, Bohème), Georges Liccioni (Tosca,Bohème), Colomba Mazzoni (Bohème), Renée Doria (Faust),
Alain Vanzo (Faust), Adrien Legros (Faust, Barbier de Séville)
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Etcheverry
Amati
Allain
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Divers
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Véga
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Studio
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33
T.
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16.047
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Emission
TV
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Divers
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12-9-1968
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Albert Lance, Georges Liccioni, Suzanne Sarroca,
Mireille Martin
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?
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?
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ORTF
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TV
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Vidéo
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19680912
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GEORGES
LICCIONI - RECITAL
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Divers
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Georges
Liccioni
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Giancarlo
Amati
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?
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Véga
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Studio
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33
T.
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L
80014
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LYRIQUE
POUR TOUS
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Divers
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?
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Géori Boué, Georges Liccioni, Adrien Legros, Alain
Vanzo, Renée Doria, Colomba Mazzoni
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Divers
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Divers
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Véga
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Studio
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33
T.
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30
LT 13010
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MADAME
BUTTERFLY
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Puccini
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Michèle Le Bris (Cio Cio San), Georges Liccioni (Pinkerton), Robert Massard (Sharpless), Jane Berbié (Souzouki)
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?
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?
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Véga Polaris
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Studio
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33
T.
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Mono
L 80011
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I wish to thank Gilles Bresciani for the recording (La Juive).
I wish to thank Claude Ribou for the discography.
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