He made his professional opera debut in 1885 at the Opéra de Lille as Lord Enrico Ashton in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

He then became a member of the Opéra National de Lyon where he had major success in the operas of Richard Wagner; especially the parts of Friedrich of Telramund in Lohengrin and Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser.

He left Lyon in 1893 to join the roster of principal artists at the Paris Opera where he remained for the rest of his career.

These covered operatic roles and melodies and included the death of Valentin from Faust, the Air du toréador from Carmen, 'Vision fugitive' from Hérodiade, the Chanson bachique from Hamlet, La Marseillaise, 'Adamastor, roi des vagues' from L'Africaine, 'Lorsqu'à de folles amours' from La Traviata, 'Sois immobile' from Guillaume Tell and 'Pour faire un brave Mousquetaire' from Les Mousquetaires au couvent.

Songs he recorded include Les rameaux and Charité by Fauré, Le soir and Prière by Gounod and Noël païen and Pensée d'automne by Massenet.