Adolphe-Joseph-Louis Alizard

Adolphe-Joseph-Louis Alizard was a French bass-baritone of the Paris Opéra, where he created Roger in Verdi's Jérusalem in 1847. A violinist first, a pupil of Chrétien Urhan, he turned to singing at the Paris Conservatoire in 1834. After a first prize he made his debut at the Opéra in 1837 as Saint-Bris in Les Huguenots, and sang mainly minor roles until 1842, when he went to Brussels. Bronchial illness then interrupted his career; he went to Italy to recover, sang there, and in 1846 returned to the Opéra as its leading bass. Two years later he moved to Marseille, where he died at 35.