Jacques Villisech

[1] In opera, he appeared in both serious and comic bass parts, such as the title role in Massenet's Don Quichotte, Don Basile in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Geronimo in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto, and Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.

[1] Villisech performed in 1965 the bass arias in the pioneering recording of Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Bach's St John Passion, with Kurt Equiluz as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the vox Christi (voice of Christ).

[1][2] In the Harnoncourt recordings of Monteverdi's operas, he appeared as Plutone in L'Orfeo, alongside Rotraud Hansmann as Euridice and Lajos Kozma as Orfeo.

[4] He recorded the Requiem by Camille Saint-Saëns with the Ensemble chorale Counterpoint and the Orchestre lyrique de l'ORTF, conducted by Jean-Gabriel Gaussens [fr].

He wrote a comedy titled Confit de générations and penned a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's story The Moonless Nights.