page_title: Jean Périer
section_title: Roles created by Périer
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Périer / Roles created by Périer
caption_attribution_description: English: French operatic baritone Jean Périer (1869-1954) as Auguste in Alfred Bruneau's L'Enfant Roi.
context_page_description: Jean Périer was a French operatic baryton-martin and actor. Although he sang principally within the operetta repertoire, Périer did portray a number of opera roles; mostly within operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giacomo Puccini. His career was almost entirely centered in Paris and he had a long association with the Opéra-Comique. He sang in a large number of world premieres, most notably originating the role of Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902. In addition to his opera career, Périer appeared in several films between 1900 and 1938.
context_section_description: Among roles which Périer created are:
  Arogagyne in Phryné by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1893
  André (Massèna) in Rivoli by André Wormser in 1896
  Florestan de Valaincourt in Véronique by André Messager in 1898
  Brutus in Shakespeare! by Gaston Serpette in 1899
  Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy in 1902 (Périer also sang Pelléas in the American premiere in New York, 1908).
  Giorgio d'Ast in La reine Fiammette by Xavier Leroux in 1903
  Auguste in L'Enfant Roi by Alfred Bruneau in 1905
  Hans in Hans le joueur de flûte by Louis Ganne in 1906
  The title role in Don Procopio by Georges Bizet in 1906
  Landry in Messager's Fortunio in 1907
  Ramiro in L'heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel in 1911
  The title role in Mârouf, savetier du Caire by Henri Rabaud in 1914
  Jérôme Coignard in La reine Pédauque by Levadé in 1920
  Duparquet in Ciboulette by Reynaldo Hahn in 1923
  Livran in Quand on est trois by Szulc in 1925
  Le Marquis in Mannequins by Szulc in 1925.
  Périer also played the speaking role of Brother Dominic in the premiere of Honegger's dramatic oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher in Basle on 12 May 1938, with Ida Rubinstein.
caption: Jean Périer as Auguste in Alfred Bruneau's L'Enfant Roi
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