Maximilien-Nicolas Bouvet (1854 – 1943) was a French operatic baritone.
Bouvet was born at La Rochelle. In 1875, he appeared at the Eldorado café-concert in Paris with the song Les myrtes son flétries by Gustave Nadaud and de Faure.[1]
At the Opéra-Comique he also sang Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Oreste (Iphigénie en Tauride), Garrido (La Navarraise), the Dutchman (Flying Dutchman), Marcel (La Boheme), Albert (Werther), Escamillo (Carmen), Ourrias (Mireille) and Zurga (Les pêcheurs de perles).[4]
In 1891 he sang Wotan in Siegfried in the house premiere at La Monnaie (Bruxelles), and from 1891 to 1894 he was a guest artist at Covent Garden.
From 1905 he taught, including a post from 1905 to 1911 at the Paris Conservatoire. His final documented stage appearance was in the role of the Inquisitor in Don Carlos and took place in 1911 at the Gaîté-Lyrique in Paris, alongside Feodor Chaliapin.[5] He died in Paris.
A compilation of 13 of his records has been reissued on CD by Marston Records.[6]
^Chepfer G. La chansonette et la musique au café-concert. In: Cinquante Ans de Musique Française de 1874 à 1925. Les Éditions Musicales de la Librairie de France, Paris, 1925.
