Albert Delhaye

Twice in Samson et Dalila, the first one with Rita Gorr

Twice in Trovatore
Tiefland

Twice in Hérodiade, the second with Vina Bovy
Pagliacci
Norma

Twice in Carmen, the second with Anduran
Rigoletto
Bohème
Tosca

Repertory

Tosca – Liège, Opéra Royal, January 1941
La bohème – Liège
Pagliacci – Liège
Manon – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 16 October 1941
Carmen – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 2 October 1941
Manon – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 16 October 1941
Werther – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 25 December 1941
Cavalleria rusticana – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 1942
Faust – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 23 March 1942
Les pêcheurs de perles – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 7 June 1942
La favorite – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 11 November 1942
Les huguenots – Bordeaux, G.T. 1944
Tannhäuser – Bordeaux, Conservatoire, 1944
Die Walküre – Bordeaux, Conservatoire, 1944
Les dames galantes de Brantome – Monte Carlo, Garnier, February 1956
Lakmé – Monte Carlo, Garnier, March 1946
Hérodiade – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 27 February 1947
Rigoletto – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 26 February 1948
Il trovatore – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 3 March 1948
Aida – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 23 December 1948
La passion – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 9 November 1950
Les contes d'Hoffmann – Brussels, Monnaie, 1947-52
Louise – Brussels, Monnaie, 1947-52
La Juive – Brussels, Monnaie, 1947-52
Tabarro – Brussels, Monnaie, 1947-52
Tiefland – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 19 November 1953
Der fliegende Holländer – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 11 March 1956
Le château de la Grande Bretèche – Verviers, Opéra Royal, 3 February 1956

Four times in La Juive, the last one with De Reuck

Reference: Richard T. Soper Belgian opera houses and singers. The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1999.

I wish to thank Georges Cardol for the recording and pictures (bottom two).

I wish to thank Christian Torrent for all the other pictures (reference for some of them: Claude-Pascal Perna's extraordinary photo collection).