Pelléas and Mélisande
Roux studied at the Bordeaux Conservatoire and in Paris, making his operatic debut on 5 October 1949 in "Lakmé" at the Opéra-Comique, going on to sing in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Manon" and "Pelléas and Mélisande", creating l'Aveugle in "Madame Bovary" in 1951, and remaining a principal singer there until 1955.