Performing Hunding: Marius Chambon

Marius Chambon was a bass of some note during his time at the Opéra. Not much documentation remains of his portrayal of Hunding in 1904; however there still exists a costume sketch of the role from 1893 done by Charles Bianchini, which gives us an idea of how he may have looked. He made his Paris debut in 1892 singing Marcel in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots. Here we see him in costume as Mephistopheles in Faust (Arakelyan, 2014).