Fugère Lucien, *28 July 1848 Paris, †15 January 1935 Paris, French singer (bass-baritone). In 1870, he made his debut at a concert at the Ba-Ta-Clan café in Paris. Towards the end of 1873, he was engaged by the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, directed by Offenbach, and from 1877 he was a soloist at the Opéra Comique. His great roles included Papageno in The Magic Flute and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Bartolo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Falstaff in Verdi’s Falstaff, Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème, and Sancho Panza in Massenet’s Don Quixote. In 1898, he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour. Between 1910 and 1913, he sang at the Théâtre de la Gaîté Lyrique, and in 1919 he returned to the stage of the Opéra Comique. In 1920, in a performance of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, he celebrated his 50th anniversary on stage.
Literature: R. Duhamel Lucien Fugère: chanteur scénique français, Paryż 1929.
