Henri Ledroit
Tenor
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| Intro | Tenor | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Singer Opera singer | |
| Work field | Music | |
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| Birth | 11 March 1946, Villacourt | |
| Death | 10 May 1988 (aged 42 years) |
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Henri Ledroit (Villacourt, 1946 - Nancy, France, 1988) was a French counter-tenor, the first in France of the modern revival in that voice range. Originally training to be a baritone in 1972 he met Alfred Deller and decided to train as a countertenor. He made many of the earliest recordings of pieces later to become standards of baroque countertenor repertoire - for example his Orphée Descendant aux Enfers of M.-A. Charpentier.