Edmond Duvernoy

Charles-Henri Edmond Duvernoy (16 June 1844 – 12 January 1927) was a French pianist, baritone and vocal teacher, from a family of musicians.

[1] He made his stage debut as Mercutio in the first performance at the Opéra-Comique of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette on 20 January 1873.

According to Malherbe, he had a relatively soft voice, but he used it with good taste, and with sufficient talent to enable him to become later one of the most esteemed vocal teachers.

[2] He sang Ganymède in Galathée in 1873, alongside his future wife, Mlle Franck, a soprano of the Opéra-Comique.

[3] From October 1887 to 1910 Duvernoy was a singing professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, with many important artists among his pupils including the Finnish sopranos Aino Ackté and Hanna Granfelt.