Alexandre Aimés

Alexandre Aimés was a French tenor of the Paris Opéra, where he sang second and comprimario roles for close to two decades. He created the shepherd in Gounod's Sapho in April 1851 and Rodolphe in Auber's Zerline the following month, and went on to create Fritz in Gounod's La nonne sanglante in 1854 and Paolo Monti in Poniatowski's Pierre de Médicis in 1860. He was Walther von der Vogelweide in the Paris Tannhäuser of 1861. He sang at the Concerts du Conservatoire as a sociétaire from 1851 to 1869, and is buried in Montmartre cemetery.