Bernard Sinclair (1937 – 27 November 2015) was a French singer (baritone) particularly associated with the repertoire of the opéra comique and operetta, but also opera.
[2] He was first a medical student, before turning to a lyrical career, on the advice of Élie Delfosse,[3] who was to become director of the Opéra de Nancy.
It is true that this seductive "baritone-martin" has a lot for him, a voice full of charm and radiant treble, a fine musicality, a physical youthful prime, joined to an elegance and a talent of comedian.
but above all the operetta repertoire in which he excelled particularly well, his favourite roles being: Franz Lehár's Paganini, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Der Zarewitsch, Brissac in Les Mousquetaires au couvent, Le Comte de Luxembourg, Goethe in Frédérique, Sou-Chong in The Land of Smiles, etc.
Over the past few years, he has approached several classic roles (Le Cid), created (Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle), created and directed his own play, Les Mouettes d' Étretat, in which he plays the lead role of an old prisoner tyrannized by his cellmate at the Théâtre du Nord-Ouest [fr].