Charles Douaillier

Charles Douaillier was a baritone from Reims, trained at the Conservatoire, who sang at the Paris Opéra from 1890 in a long run of secondary and occasional leading parts, Valentin in Faust and Horatio in Hamlet among them. He created Montano in Othello in 1894, heralds in Massenet's Le mage and the Opéra's Lohengrin, and Nachtigall in Les maîtres chanteurs, and was the second Philistine in the Opéra's first Samson et Dalila in 1892.