Étienne Sapin

1827–1898 · French · tenor

Birthplace: Les Roches-de-Condrieu, Kingdom of France

Étienne Sapin was a tenor from Les Roches-de-Condrieu, in Isère, who sang the Paris Opéra's secondary tenor parts for nearly thirty years. He made his debut as the Herald in Robert le diable in 1856 and created Ruiz in Le trouvère the following year. At the Palais Garnier he sang parts from Rodolphe in Guillaume Tell to Polonius in Hamlet. He was the Messenger in the Opéra's first Aida, and created the Cadi in Gounod's Le tribut de Zamora in 1881 and Surrey in Saint-Saëns's Henry VIII in 1883.

Creations

Ruiz — Il trovatore (Paris, 1857)

Written from

L'Art Lyrique Français (n.d.) Dictionnaire des chanteurs de l'Opéra de Paris: Étienne Sapin. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).