Guy Fouché

From 1945 to 1953, he performed in French opera houses, including those of Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Rennes and Bordeaux.

From 1954 to 1956, he was part of the troupe of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège before being, for six seasons, the first tenor at La Monnaie in Brussels.

In the 1950s, the breed of great opera tenors seemed to be on the verge of extinction, when lovers of bel canto had the revelation of the extraordinary voice of the young Bordeaux tenor Fouché: ...(he possessed) a charming timbre, a high register of ease and disconcerting power .

In The Damnation of Faust, he is the only protagonist who could record the love duet as it was written by Berlioz with the formidable C sharp from the chest.

Finally, as a worthy successor to Nourrit, Giovanni Matteo Mario and Jean de Reszke, Fouché conferred virtue and durability to the heroic repertoire of Auber and Meyerbeer, which was thought to be near extinction for lack of a qualified interpreter.