Juteau: tenor, baritone and comic through 45 years.

I added this as a PS to my Fille de Madame Angot blog. But here it is for those who don't want to read that whole piece again

https://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2021/06/la-fille-de-madame-angot-they-dont.html

This is Emile Eugène PINARD dit JUTEAU (b 4 December 1834) as Ange Pitou in the American production of Angot. He and his wife, Perrette née ROLAND, went out to America with Marie Aimée's company which introduced the work to (French-speaking) America in 1872. It was a huge success, and in the shadow of Aimée, Juteau was considered more than adequate. The company played the whole repertoire of opéra-bouffe, and Juteau appeared as Fritz, Barbe-bleue, Falsacappa, Céladon (Cent Vierges), Paris et al during the two years they remained in America.

This card was signed while the company fulfilled a season at New York's Broadway Theatre.

Juteau was, as was the way in the USA of the 1870s, presented surrounded by ficticiously glamourising claims ('principal tenor at the Bouffes-Parisiens'). In fact, at nearly forty years of age, his busy and appreciated career in Europe had been limited to the provinces. With the help of Lyonnet's not often fallible dictionary, I have the following break-down (to be filled out).

1863 Lille (2ème ténor)

1864-5 Bordeaux

1867-71 Gymnase, Marseille: Piquillo (Périchole) ('un chanteur agréable'). Perrette got her costume on fire in L'Oeil crevé

1870-1 Galeries St Hubert, Brussels Les Hannetons, La Mer 

1872 (till August) Meynardier's co with Matz-Ferrare in Europe: Milan, Vienna Grande-Duchesse, Voyage en Chine, Petit Faust, Barbe-bleue, Les Turcs, Périchole, Geneviève de Brabant (as Sifroy)

(New York)

more Marseille

1875-80 St Petersburg, Théâtre Michel

1876 Perpignan

1876 Brussels 

1881-2 Yassy

1883 Arcachon, Montauban et al

1883 Brussels Fille de Madame Angot with Luigini and Geoffroy

1883-6 Sommertheater, St Petersburg La Petite Mariée

1887 Rouen ('trial')

1889-91 Anvers Mam'zelle Nitouche, Manon

1891 London, Covent Garden  Guillot in Manon 'from the theatre de la Monnaie'

1892 Lyon

1894-5 Toulouse ('trial')

!! Paris 1896

1897-8 Toulouse

It is clear that while Juteau was no Dupuis, he was an extremely useful baritenor in all styles. And for a very long time. Oh, Madame (who also played as Mlle Roland), was, I feel, really little more than a chorine and when trying anything higher did not seem to please. I think I spot her once essaying Marguerite!

Lyonnet tells us that Juteau was still alive in 1907, living in Sucy en Brie ...

'Pinard', by the way, would not have been a nice name for a tenor. It is French for 'plonk' as in wine!

 Noted: father Jules Juteau and Mons Rolland were both members of the company playing in London in 1860.