Jean Arnold

His real name was Adolphe Bouchart. He studied voice with Mme.Roch-Tondeur at the conservatory of La Lovière, and with Betty Dasnoy at the conservatory of Brussels. He started his career as a baritone.

As a tenor, he sang primarily at La Monnaie in Brussels:
Andrea Chénier (Giordano) – Radames (8 performances, 1950–1951)
Armide (Gluck) – Renaud (8 performances, 1948–1949)
Blanche-Neige (Schubert/von Weingartner) – Le prince (13 performances, 1947–1948)
Carmen (Bizet) – Don José (26 performances, 1945–1955)
Paillasse (Leoncavallo) – Canio (17 performances, 1945–1955)
La dame de pique (Chaikovskij) – German (5 performances, 1946–1947)
Don Juan (Mozart) – Don Ottavio (8 performances, 1947–1948)
Faust (Gounod) – Faust (38 performances, 1945–1952)
La fiancée vendue (Smetana) – Jeník (10 performances, 1948–1952)
Fidelio (Beethoven) – Florestan (14 performances, 1948–1952)
La fille du Far West (Puccini) – Dick Johnson (11 performances, 1945–1947)
La flûte enchantée (Mozart) – Tamino (3 performances, 1946–1947)
La foire de Sorotchintzi (Mussorgskij) – Gritsko (1 performance, 1944–1945)
Jules César (Händel) – Sextus Pompée (9 performances, 1946–1947)
Lohengrin (Wagner) – Lohengrin (3 performances, 1949–1950)
Lucie de Lammermoor (Donizetti) – Edgard (3 performances, 1947–1952)
Les maîtres-chanteurs de Nuremberg (Wagner) – Stolzing (7 performances, 1949–1950)
Manon (Massenet) – Chévalier Des Grieux (23 performances, 1947–1952)
Monna Vanna (Fevrier) – Prinzivalle (6 performances, 1949–1950)
Parsifal (Wagner) – Parsifal (9 performances, 1948–1951)
Les pêcheurs de perles (Bizet) – Nadir (19 performances, 1947–1952)
Le prince Igor (Borodin) – Vladimir Igorevitch (14 performances, 1946–1947)
Le roi d'Ys (Lalo) – Mylio (5 performances, 1949–1950)
Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) – Roméo (10 performances, 1946–1951)
La sirène au pays des hommes(Samuel) – Le prince (7 performances, 1945–1946)
Tosca (Puccini) – Mario Cavaradossi (26 performances, 1945–1954)
Werther (Massenet) – Werther (14 performances, 1946–1952)

In Verviers, he sang in:
Tosca, October 26th, 1945
Faust, 1945–1948
Carmen, November 14th, 1948 and December 14th, 1950
Werther, March 13th, 1948
Les pêcheurs de perles, March 17th, 1949

At the Opéra-Comique in Paris, he made his debut as Don José on May 25th, 1947. Other than that, he appeared in Ghent, Vichy, Lyon, Bordeaux...

I wish to thank Christian Torrent for all the information and pictures on this page.

Reference: Claude-Pascal Perna's extraordinary photo collection
Archives digitales de la Monnaie
Richard T. Soper: Belgian opera houses and singers, The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1999.