Louis Gassier Explained

Louis Gassier (30 April 1820 – 18 December 1871) was a French operatic baritone.^[1]

Biography

Born in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var department), Gassier married the Spanish singer .^[2] He was hired with his wife in 1855 at Drury Lane in London, where they performed in La sonnambula and Il trovatore.^[3]

Gassier died in Havana on 18 December 1871.

Notes and References

1. Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre, in Théophile Gautier, Correspondance générale, volume 6, Droz, 1991,
2. [Vera Brodsky Lawrence]
3. Le Ménestrel, 15 April 1855,