Louis Gassier

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 Josefa Gassier.[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.

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References
  1. Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre, in Théophile Gautier, Correspondance générale, volume 6, Droz, 1991, (p. 77)
  2. Vera Brodsky Lawrence, Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, volume 3: Repercussions, 1857-1862, University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 550.
  3. Le Ménestrel, 15 April 1855, p. 4
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