Fernand Ansseau [SEP] voice type
Fernand Ansseau
Fernand Ansseau (March 6, 1890 in Boussu-Bois – May 1, 1972 in Brussels) was a Belgian tenor.
with Olga Borodina as Dalila and José Cura as Samson. Likewise, the San Francisco Opera has staged the opera 10 times during its history giving its first performance in 1925, with Marguerite d'Alvarez and Fernand Ansseau in the principal roles, and its most recent performance in 2008, with Borodina and Clifton Forbis.
"Samson et Dalila" became a consistent presence in the opera houses of Europe. By 1920, the Paris Opéra alone had given more than five hundred performances of the opera. In the decades after World War II