Asile Hereditaire

Francois Nouvion is well known collector and author
of operatic subjects. He was born in Zurich and is a
US citizen. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich and at Stanford University in Palo Alto.
He worked mostly in the semiconductor testing equipment
fi eld and sold US Equipment from Russia to Tokyo.
Early on he became very interested in Opera and
developed his knowledge in singing from the reissues by Guy
Dumazert. He currently maintains a comprehensive website
on tenors (historicaltenors.com) and a YouTube channel on
Historical tenors.
Although his interest on Irish-French tenor John
O`Sullivan dates from his early days, he fi nally started
researching the tenor`s career in the early 90s after meeting
OSullivans children: Jacques, Colette and Raymonde.
After much work contacting the different libraries all over
the world, with the Paris and Marseilles libraries being the
most diffi cult to work with, he fi nally started writing the
O`Sullivan biography in 2007. It is now published. He only
regrets that Jacques OSullivan, the tenor`s son, did not
live to witness the publication.