Alain Fondary

Acting

Alain Fondary

Born

1932-10-09 (94)

Place of birth

Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Known for

Acting

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Alain Fondary (born 9 October 1932 in Bagnolet) is a French baritone. Before embarking on his lyrical career, Alain Fondary followed the family tradition of glass blower, like his parents, in Paris, Boulevard Voltaire. He attended glass school and went to opera with his parents and José Luccioni, a friend of the family. Passionate about judo, he nevertheless worked on singing at the age of thirty, first with André Baugé, then with Georges Jouatte and André Hauth, then with Yvonne Pons, Alice Monfort and Gaetano Abrani. He made his debut in Cherbourg in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, performing the role of Tonio in 1968 and the following year sang Ourrias in Mireille by Charles Gounod in…

Known for

Le monde est à vous poster
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Le monde est à vous

1987

Le Grand Échiquier poster
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Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

30 millions d'amis poster
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30 millions d'amis

1976

Jérusalem poster
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Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was to be an adaptation and partial translation of the composer's original 1843 Italian opera, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. It was the one opera which he regarded as the most suitable for being translated into French. Live from the Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, November 2000.

Jérusalem

2000

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Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

Carmen

1989

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra poster
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The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently political opera in which power struggles are interwoven with family conflicts, Simon Boccanegra echoes the life of its composer – the man who championed the cause of Italian unification and overcame the loss of his wife and children.

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

1985

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