Théodore Coulon

Théodore Coulon was a Belgian bass who spent nine years at the Paris Opéra after training at the Conservatoire, where he took an accessit in opéra-comique in 1848. He began at the Opéra-Comique in 1851 and passed through the Théâtre-Lyrique before joining the Opéra in 1853, creating roles in Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes, Félicien David's Herculanum and Gounod's La reine de Saba, and singing Biterolf in the Paris Tannhäuser of 1861. Later engagements took him to Brussels, Milan, Bordeaux, New York and New Orleans. He married the soprano Léonie Levielli in 1872.