Ernest Carbonne [SEP] voice type
Ernest Carbonne
Raymond Jean-Baptiste Ernest Carbonne (30 July 1860 in Toulouse – 1924) was a French tenor and stage director who had a long association with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Life and career.
Carbonne studied at the , gaining first prizes in opéra comique and acting in 1887. He was a pupil of Achard and Bax at the Paris Conservatoire, winning first prize for opéra comique in 1889.
He made his debut at the Paris Opéra-Comique on 15 January 1890 as Sylvain in
in 1891 and 1904. It was played on tour for five months in 1878 by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a curtain raiser to "The Sorcerer" by Gilbert and Sullivan.
The Opéra-Comique in Paris staged the work in 1901 with Jeanne Tiphaine as Reinette, Lucien Fugère as Père Mathieu and Ernest Carbonne as Pierre.
Synopsis.
The scene is a village square in Brittany. 
Reinette asks Père Mathieu to help Pierre who is terrified as he has been conscripted in the army and can only get