Bernard Lefort

Bernard Lefort 29 July 1922 19 January 1999 was a French lyric baritone and later an opera director Born in Paris Lefort was a pupil of the Institution NotreDame de SainteCroix and then sang in the college choir of the Schola the Petits chanteurs de SainteCroix de Neuilly He then began a career as a baritone mainly in French mélodies Germaine Tailleferre composed for him her Concerto des vaines paroles for baritone and orchestra in 1956 but also in operetta and opera he performed in the mid1950s au Théâtre du Châtelet and at the Paris Opera He stopped singing for health reasons in the late 1950s He then became Artistic Director of the Lausanne Festival then directed the Opéra de Marseille from 1965 to 1968 He will then lead the Festival dautomne à Paris le Festival de Royaumont then the Paris Opera and finally the AixenProvence Festival from 1974 to 1982 where he succeeded Gabriel Dussurget Source Article Bernard Lefort from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA 30