Joseph Caillot

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Joseph Caillot, engraving by Simon Charles Miger (c. 1770).

Joseph Caillot (24 January 1733, in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris – 30 September 1816, in Paris) was a French actor and singer.^[1]

He was endowed with a very wide compass which enabled him to sing as a basse taille (bass-baritone), while also reaching the haute-contre tones.^[2] According to Rodolfo Celletti "he was a baritenor and a bass at the same time": Grétry and Monsigny used to notate his parts in the bass clef, but set them in high-baritone tessiture.^[3]

References

^ Mason, Daniel Gregory (1917). The Art of Music: A dictionary-index of musicians. New York: National Society of Music. pp. 74.
^ Jean Gourret, Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, Les publications universitaires, 1978, p. 43.
^ Voce di tenore, Milan, Idealibri, 1989, p. 59, ISBN 88-7082-127-7

Bibliography

Émile Campardon, Les Comédiens du roi de la troupe italienne, Paris, Berger-Levrault et C^ie, 1880, vol. I, pp. 85–95.

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