Jacques Guignot

Jacques Guignot was a Paris baritone, the son of a musician of the Opéra, and sang at the Opéra himself from 1845 to 1864. He created the Emir of Ramla in Jérusalem in 1847, the Baron de Moldaw in Gounod's La nonne sanglante in 1854 and the Comte de Vaudemont in Les vêpres siciliennes in 1855, and was a member of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire from 1846 to 1864. In 1885, after thirty-seven years on the stage, he was granted a pension by the Association des artistes dramatiques.