Michel Caron (tenor)

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.
• Video of 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