Emilio Naudin

He is most notable for creating the role of Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine.

[1] He appeared at the Royal Opera House, London, for ten consecutive seasons between 1863 and 1872.

After his great success in that part, he sang with the Paris Opera for two more years, and then moved into Wagnerian repertoire, singing Lohengrin (in Italian) in England and Tannhäuser in Moscow.

Naudin was praised for his clear and easy to hear voice and his elegance onstage, although his powers of acting were apparently limited.

He abandoned his career due to an illness which caused progressive paralysis, of which he died.