Bernard Lefort

Bernard Lefort (29 July 1922 – 19 January 1999), was a French lyric baritone, and later an opera director.

Born in Paris, Lefort was a pupil of the Institution Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix and then sang in the college choir of the Schola (the Petits chanteurs de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly).

He then began a career as a baritone, mainly in French mélodies (Germaine Tailleferre composed for him her Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone and orchestr...