What is Hugues Cuénod?
[[File:Huguescuénod.JPG|thumb|Hugues Cuénod photographed on 22 February 2010 (at age 107) with [[Dutch people|Dutch]] violinist Jeroen van der Wel]] '''Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod''' (born 26 June 1902; died 6 December 2010<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/57412/Hugues_Cuenod Hugues Cuénod] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230233511/http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/57412/Hugues_Cuenod |date=2010-12-30 }}</ref>) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[opera]] [[singer]]. He was a [[tenor]]. He was particularly famous for singing [[comic]] roles in opera. He had an extremely long career, lasting over 65 years. He was still singing in opera at the age of 92. He died at the age of 108. ==Career== Hugues Cuénod was born in [[Corseaux|Corseaux-sur-Vevey]]. He studied at the [[Ribaupierre Institute]] in [[Lausanne]], at the conservatories in [[Geneva]] and [[Basel]], and in [[Vienna]]. At first he sang in concerts. Then, in 1928, he got a part in the [[jazz]] opera ''Jonny spielt auf'' by [[Ernst Krenek]] when it was performed in Paris. The next year he sang for the first time in the [[United States]] in [[Noël Coward]]'s ''Bitter Swee t''. He worked in Geneva until 1933, then he went to [[Paris]] where he met the music teacher [[Nadia Boulanger]]. She had a big influence on his musical development. He made a [[concert]] tour of North America. From 1940 to 1946 he taught at the [[Conservatoire de Musique de Genève|Geneva Conservatory]]. In 1943 he started singing in opera again, singing in [[Johann Strauss II]]'s ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' in Geneva. Then he sang at Milan's [[La Scala]] (1951), the [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera|Glyndebourne Festival]] (from 1954 on) and [[London]]'s [[Royal Opera House]], Covent Garden (1954, 1956 and 1958). Cuénod sang music by many different composers. He was famous for singing the part of Basilio in [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', the Astrologer in [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s ''[[The Golden Cockerel]]''