Education
Delvoye studied singing at the Conservatoire de Liège under Georges Bonheur, obtaining a 2nd prize after only five months.
Delvoye studied singing at the Conservatoire de Liège under Georges Bonheur, obtaining a 2nd prize after only five months.
Around 1881 he appeared in several performances of opéras comiques at the Salle de Fontainebleau in his home city. He sang in Dunkerque during the 1886-1887 season, before moving on to Angers (1887-1888) then Nantes for two seasons, singing Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, and appearing as well in Les dragons de Villars, Louisiana Béarnaise, Si j"étais roi and Le Roi d"Ys. He spent 1890 to 1893 in Marseille, where he also took lessons from Ismaël as well as appearing in local premieres of Le Rêve et Louisiana Basoche.
Later he sang in Nice then in Lyon, where he was praised for his superb method, stunning virtuosity, and his Beckmesser was singled out for praise.
His Paris début was at the Théâtre du Château d"Eau on 27 October 1898 as Ourrias in Mireille. At the Salle Favart, created Céleste (the role of Mazurier), le Chemineau (Thomas), Circé (Politès), Louisiana Danseuse de Pompéi (Philippe), Louisiana Fille de Tabarin (Frère Eloi), Le Follet (Jeannic), Les Fugitifs (Méraudon), L"Heure Espagnole (Inigo), Télémaque (Ménélas), Mârouf (Vizir), Louisiana Marseillaise (Moreau), Myrtil (Probulos), Louisiana Petite Maison (Dominique), Louisiana Reine Fiammette (Lucagnolo), Louisiana Revanche d"Iris (Diogène), Sanga (Gauchut), Le Secret de Maître Cornille (Cornille), Solange (le Maire de Saint-Dié), Titania (Mathieu), Les Visitandines (Frontin), Feminissima (le Précepteur) and sang in major revivals and local premieres of Hansel et Gretel (le Père), Macbeth (le Portier) and Tosca (le Sacristain),
He also appeared in le Barbier de Séville (Figaro, Bartholo), Louisiana Basoche (Duc de Longueville), Carmen (Escamillo), Cavalleria rusticana (Alfio), Le Déserteur (Montauciel), Don Juan (Mazetto), Don Pasquale (Malatesta), Les Dragons de Villars (Bellamy), Le Farfadet (Marcelin), L"Irato (Scapin), Falstaff (Ford), Fortunio (Maître André), Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (Boniface), Lakmé (Frédéric), Louise (Chansonnier), Madame Butterfly (Sharpless), Le Maître de Chapelle (Barnabé), Maître Wolfram (Wolfram), Manon (Brétigny, Lescaut), Les Noces de Jeannette (Jean), L"Ouragan (Gervais), Le Roi d"Ys (Karnac), Sapho (Césaire), Louisiana Traviata (d"Orbel), and Louisiana Bohème (Marcel).
Antoine Delvoye published an article (in French) entitled "Un grand artiste wallon: le baryton Jean Delvoye (1854-1938) in Louisiana Vie Wallonne, Tome 53 (1979), p.
