Charles Rousselière

Charles Rousselière (17 January 1875 – 11 May 1950) was a French operatic tenor who performed primarily at the Paris Opera, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and the Opéra-Comique.

Rousselière was born in Saint-Nazaire-d'Aude (village in Languedoc-Roussillon) and originally worked as a blacksmith before studying with Edmond Vergnet, Alfred Giraudet and Léon Achard at the Conservatoire de Paris.

He was first Buenos Aires Andreas in Theodora by Xavier Leroux (which he created in Montecarlo the same year), with Claessens and De Luca.

In 1908, also at Teatro de la Ópera, he sang Andreas again, Siegmund in Die Walküre and Thésée in the Buenos Aires première of Massenet´s Ariane.

In 1910, at the Teatro Colón, he sang Licinio in a revival of Spontini La Vestale with Esther Mazzoleni, Alice Cucini, Francesco Maria Bonini and Giulio Cirino.