Michel Caron (29 April 1929 in Sèvres - 3 September 2001 in Le Mesnil-Simon, Eure-et-Loir) was a French operatic tenor and stage actor.

He sang in operettas like The White Horse Inn (1960) and opéra-bouffe La Périchole with Jean Le Poulain and Roger Carel, and Barbe Bleue with Jean Le Poulain and Arlette Didier (1968).[1]

Biographie

From childhood, Michel Caron wanted to become an actor. He entered the René Simon class, then the Conservatoire de Paris where he won three first prizes: opera, comic opera and operetta.

Caron's career began at the Théâtre du Châtelet to perform Guy Florès during a revival of The White Horse Inn (1960/1961).[2]

He was then at the top of the bill for two plays of opéra-bouffe, performed in 1968, La Périchole with Jean Le Poulain and Roger Carel and Barbe Bleue with Jean Le Poulain and Arlette Didier.[3]

Filmography

• 1978: Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret, episode: Maigret et le tueur by Marcel Cravenne
• 1981: Le Choix des armes, by Alain Corneau
• 1982: Le Démon dans l'île by Francis Leroi

Bibliography

• Mishima n'était pas un héros, the testimony book of his eldest daughter Laurence Caron-Spokojny on the disappearance of Michel Caron, 3 September 2001, Editions Publibook, 2013, ISBN 978-2342000269.

References

External links

• Orphée aux enfers broadcast on ORTF 17 December 1958.
• Emission "DIM DAM DOM" broadcast 31 October 1969 on ORTF, introduced by Marie Laforêt. Le Ténor de la Périchole, Michel Caron.
• Arletty, Georges Van Parys and Michel Caron
• La Périchole by Offenbach directed by Maurice Lehmann with Michel Caron, broadcast on ORTF, 24 December 1971.
• Michel Caron's career, lyric artist and actor
• Michel Caron at AllMusic

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