Jacques Isnardon

Jacques Isnardon (15 February 1860 - 14 November 1930) was a French bass-baritone, writer and voice teacher.
After winning a competition at the Paris Conservatory, he made his debut as Baxter in Émile Paladilhe's "Diane" at the Opéra-Comique in 1885, before moving to Brussels and the "Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie", whose history he chronicled. He sang in "Die Meistersinger" at Covent Garden, "Manon" at La Scala and "Le médecin malgré lui" at Monte Carlo before returning to the Opéra-Comique in 1894. His "Le Chant Théâtral" is as much a memoir of his times as a philosophy of vocal pedagogy: "Herein is but one method: the new method for each pupil". One of his students was American actress, writer, and translator Virginia Fox Brooks.
He sang in the world premieres of "Jocelyn" and "Le chevalier d'Harmental"; other roles included Mozart's Bartolo and Rossini's Basilio; Puccini's Colline and Leoncavallo's Schaunard; Masetto, Lescaut, Enrico & at various times 5 roles (Mercutio, Paris, Gregorio, Laurent and the Duke) from "Roméo et Juliette".