Armand Crabbé [SEP] voice type
Armand Crabbé
Charles Armand Crabbé (23 April 1883, Brussels – 24 July 1947, Brussels) was a Belgian operatic baritone. He studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Désiré Demest. In 1904 he made his professional opera debut at La Monnaie as the Nightwatchman in Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg". He was a leading performer at the Royal Opera House in London from 1906 to 1914 and again in 1937. He performed with the Manhattan Opera House from 1907 to 1910 and with the Chicago Grand Opera Company from
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- Gustave Huberdeau biography from Operissimo.com (In German)
External links.
- "Artists in the War", "New York Times" article of 19 September 1914 mistakenly reporting Huberdeau's death on the World War I battlefields along with two other French opera singers Léon Rothier and Armand Crabbé. All of them had in fact survived. Rothier died in 1951 and Crabbé in 1947.