Félix Vieuille, was a French operatic bass who sang for more than four decades with the Opéra-Comique in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, he created roles in numerous world premieres, most notably portraying Arkel in the original production of Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera in five acts, with music by who?
Félix Vieuille Félix Vieuille (15 October 1872, Saujon – 28 February 1953, Saujon) was a French operatic bass who sang for more than four decades with the Opéra-Comique in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century. He created roles in numerous world premieres, most notably portraying Arkel in the original production of Claude Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" in 1902 which he went on to sing 208 times at that house. He possessed a rich voice and a solid technique which helped sustain his career for a long time. His voice is preserved on a number of recordings made on the Odeon, Lyrophon, and Beka labels.
Le chalet Le chalet is an opéra comique in one act by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville after the singspiel "Jery und Bätely " by Goethe. The score re-uses material from Adam's Prix de Rome cantata "Ariane a Naxos" (1825). The text for the singspiel had previously been set to music by Peter Winter, 1790, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, 1801, and Conradin Kreutzer, 1810, and later by Donizetti, 1836, Julius Rietz, 1841, Heinrich Stihl, 1867, and Ingeborg Bronsart, 1873.