Jacques Villisech was a French bass-baritone in opera and concert.
11 Facts About Jacques Villisech
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Jacques Villisech was an early specialist singing Baroque music in historically informed performance.
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Jacques Villisech studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, and continued his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Academy Chigiana in Siena.
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Jacques Villisech was a prize-winner at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
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Jacques Villisech performed in 1965 the bass arias in the pioneering recording of Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Bach's St John Passion, with Kurt Equiluz as the Evangelist and Max van Egmond as the vox Christi.
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Jacques Villisech recorded several Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi-Chor, conducted by Jurgen Jurgens, including the Actus tragicus and the secular Hunting Cantata.
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Jacques Villisech was the soloist in Bach's secular cantata on an Italian text Amore traditore, conducted by Gustav Leonhardt.
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Jacques Villisech recorded the Requiem by Camille Saint-Saens with the Ensemble chorale Counterpoint and the Orchestre lyrique de l'ORTF, conducted by Jean-Gabriel Gaussens.
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Jacques Villisech was a voice teacher at the Conservatoire National de Region de Versailles.
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Jacques Villisech founded a vocal ensemble called Quartet of Versailles.
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Jacques Villisech wrote a comedy titled Confit de generations and penned a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's story The Moonless Nights.