Personne : Nicolas-Jean-Blaise Martin

D'une troupe

Role Troupe De à
chanteur
 Théâtre de Monsieur (Théâtre Feydeau) 1789 Inconnue

Titre Date Rôle
Les Oiseaux de mer 1796 compositeur

Performance Rôle Troupe Date
Le Marquis de Tulipano (1789-01-28) chanteur 1789-01-28

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Philip ROBINSON : 'Martin, Jean-Blaise', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 31 May 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Martin, (Nicolas-)Jean-Blaise [Blès] (b Paris, 24 Feb 1768; d Ronzières, nr Lyons, 28 Oct 1837). French baritone. He studied music at an early age and auditioned unsuccessfully for the Opéra as both a violinist and a singer. He made his début at the Théâtre de Monsieur in 1789 in Le marquis de Tulipano, a French version of Paisiello’s opera Il matrimonio inaspettato. Lessons with Mme Dugazon and Talma helped him to overcome his deficiencies as an actor and in 1794 he moved to the Théâtre Favart, remaining there until it merged with the Feydeau to form the Opéra-Comique in 1801. Martin specialized in comic servant roles in new operas by Dalayrac, Boieldieu, Méhul, Isouard and others. He retired from the Opéra-Comique in 1823 but returned briefly in 1826 and 1833, when he appeared in Halévy’s Les souvenirs de Lafleur, a pasticcio incorporating songs from his most successful roles. He was also a member of the imperial chapel (later the royal chapel) from its foundation until July 1830, and taught singing at the Paris Conservatoire from 1816 to 1818 and 1832 to 1837.
    Martin’s voice combined the range and quality of a tenor and a baritone, spanning two and a half octaves from E to a', with an additional octave in falsetto. His exceptional range influenced vocal characterization in opéras comiques for over a century, and high-lying ‘baryton Martin’roles can be found in operas by Hérold (Zampa), Gounod (Valentin in Faust), Bizet (Escamillo in Carmen, Ernesto in Don Procopio, the Duke of Rothsay in La jolie fille de Perth and Splendiano in Djamileh), Debussy (Pelléas) and Ravel (Ramiro in L’heure espagnole). […] He composed a one-act opéra comique, Les oiseaux de mer, produced at the Théâtre Feydeau in 1796."
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