Prosper Guyot

also Monsieur Guyot, Louis Prosper Guyot

1816–1887 · French · bass

Birthplace: Bouresches, Kingdom of France

Prosper Guyot was a bass from the Aisne, a clerk and amateur singer who came to Paris in 1855 to join the Bouffes-Parisiens. At the Théâtre-Lyrique, in 1856 and from 1862 to 1869, he created Nourabad in Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, a Trojan soldier in Berlioz's Les Troyens à Carthage and parts in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Bizet's La jolie fille de Perth, and was the Doctor in the revised Macbeth of 1865. He also sang at the church of Saint-Eustache.

Creations

Medico — Macbeth (Paris, 1865)

Written from

L'Art Lyrique Français (n.d.) Guyot Prosper. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
L'Art Lyrique Français (n.d.) Chanteurs du Théâtre-Lyrique: Prosper Guyot. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).