GEORGES LUCAS (? 1868 - ?)
This French tenor was engaged at the Grand Opéra in Paris during the
1899–1900 season, alongside his wife, the soprano Julia Lucas (born in 1869).
He made his debut there as Jean in Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, and subsequently
sang the title role in Reyer’s Sigurd, Matho in the same composer’s Salammbô,
Kérloù in Paladilhe’s Patrie!, and Énée in Berlioz’s La Prise de Troie (in its
Grand Opéra premiere).
His career was primarily centered in provincial French opera houses,
where he frequently performed with his wife. The couple also appeared together
in Romania.
During the 1907–08 season, he joined the Metropolitan Opera in New
York, where he mainly sang character roles, such as the Abbé in Cilea’s Adriana
Lecouvreur, Laërte in Thomas’s Mignon, Spoletta in Tosca, Arturo in Lucia di
Lammermoor, Edmondo in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and once Radamès in Aida. He
also participated in several concerts at the Metropolitan Opera.
No further details about the couple’s later career are available.
Records: Georges Lucas recorded nine Pathé cylinders in Paris in 1904,
featuring arias from La Juive, Les Huguenots, Sigurd, Robert le Diable, Le Cid,
and Verdi’s Otello.
JULIA LUCAS (? 1869 - ?)
She was the wife of the tenor Georges Lucas (1868–?), who appeared at various French provincial theaters and sang during the 1907–1908 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Like her husband, she was engaged by the Grand Opéra in Paris for the 1899–1900 season, where she performed the roles of Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots, Hilda in Sigurd, and Mathilde in Guillaume Tell.
Chronology of some appearances
1899-1900 Paris Grand Opera
TRACKLIST
Georges
Lucas
Huguenots
(Meyerbeer): Plus blanche 0015 Pathé cylinders, Paris 1904?
Juive
(Halévy): Loin de son amie 0017 Pathé cylinders, Paris 1904?
Cid
(Massenet): Grand air du ténor 0048 Pathé cylinders, Paris 1904?
Julia
Lucas
Fille du
Régiment (Donizetti): Couplet du 21e 18008 Edison 2-min cylinders, Paris 1908?
Guillaume
Tell (Rossini): Sombre forêt 17023 Edison 4-min cylinders, Paris 1909?
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