François Cancelier
Birthplace: Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium
François Cancelier was a Belgian bass from Molenbeek, who made his debut at the Paris Opéra in August 1894 in Salammbô and created the Herald in Othello that October. He stayed for at least ten years in the company's small bass parts, a gravedigger in Hamlet, Wagner in Faust and Fafner in Siegfried, and created parts in Guiraud and Saint-Saëns's Frédégonde in 1895 and Saint-Saëns's Les barbares in 1901.
Creations
- Un héraut — Otello (Paris, 1894)
Written from
- L'Art Lyrique Français (n.d.) Dictionnaire des chanteurs de l'Opéra de Paris: François Cancelier. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).