(Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) SMS 1966 Coquenard (Véronique), World Record Club 1968 Le bailli (Werther) HMV 1969 Frédéric (Lakmé) EMI 1970 Barnabé (Le maître de chapelle) Barclay Inédits 1970 Orcan (Les Paladins) CBS 1972 Ali (Les Indes Galantes) CBS 1973 Le Podestat (Le Docteur Miracle) Barclay Inédits 1973 Le Brésilien, Frick and Prosper (La Vie parisienne), EMI 1975 Grenu/Le marquis (Ciboulette) EMI 1982 Benoît appeared with his sister in (among others) the Lully above, and in a series of French folk and popular songs recorded in the 1950s for the Club National du disque and Ducretet-Thomson. He sang the vocal numbers on the 1973 CBS LP 'Concert à la cour d'Henri IV', with the Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy directed by Jean-Claude Malgoire. He recorded Ravel's Histoires naturelles on Selmer in the 1950s, the Chansons villageoises, Le Bal masqué and Le Bestiare by Poulenc on Pathé in 1965, mélodies by Reynaldo Hahn and Au pays de la magie by Maurice Le Roux, with Georges Pludermacher, piano on Adès, 1974. Accompanied by Bernard Ringeissen, he recorded an LP of sixteen songs by József Kosma for Disques Adès in 1976. He provided the narration for the French versions of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with Hans Swarowsky conducting the Pro Musica Orchester Wien. He appeared in a large number of broadcasts on French radio and television, singing many French premieres, of works by Baudrier, Britten, Delerue, Nigg, Prokofiev and Semenoff. Among operatic recordings for French radio were Le Marquis de Pontcalé (in La Camargo), Ouf (L'Étoile), Gaston (Rayon des soieries), Charles Martel (Geneviève de Brabant) and Sganarelle (Le Médecin malgré lui). Family His mother (Léontine Benoît-Granier, died 1957) was a musician and composer, while his father Henri Benoît was a notable viola player in Paris, who was a member of the Capet Quartet in the 1920s, participating in several of their recordings during that period. His sister, Denise Benoît (1919–1973) was a popular and much recorded soprano and actress. Mother, son and daughter appeared together on record in Chants de France : Mountabo la marmite ('Bourrée d'Auvergne') on Ducretet-Thomson LPG 8 220. References 1925 births 2019 deaths French operatic baritones 20th-century French male opera singers Singers from Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni