Background
Bacquier, Gabriel was born on May 17, 1924 in Beziers, France. Son of Augustin and Fernande (Severa) Bacquier.
Bacquier, Gabriel was born on May 17, 1924 in Beziers, France. Son of Augustin and Fernande (Severa) Bacquier.
Student, Paris Conservatoire.
2 sons. Debut at Theatre Royalde la Monnaie, Brussels, 1953, as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at Opera Comique, Paris, 1956, Paris Opera Tosca, 1960, at Carnegie Hall, 1960, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1961. Appears regularly at Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, Louisiana Scala, Opera de Paris and other leading opera houses. Repertoire includes Otello, Don Giovanni, Pelleas et Melisande, Damnation de Faust, Tosca, Falstaff.
Married Simone Teisseire Bacquier, 1943 (divorced). 2 children; Married Mauricette Benard Bacquier, 1958.