Louis Guéymard

Louis Guéymard was a French tenor, the son of farmers, who sang leading roles at the Paris Opéra for twenty years. He trained in Lyon and at the Paris Conservatoire, and made his Opéra debut in 1848 as Robert le diable, which he also sang at its 500th performance in 1867. He created Jonas in Le prophète, Rodolphe in Gounod's La nonne sanglante, Henri in Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes and Adoniram in La reine de Saba, and was Manrique in the French Le trouvère. He was married to the soprano Pauline Guéymard-Lauters, and later sang in New Orleans.