Anse de Malmousque

This guide to the Anse de Malmousque in Marseille follows Auguste-Acanthe Boudouresque, a Paris Opera bass who kept a modest villa on this quiet cove, and the fifteen-year gap in his career that the record never quite explains. It traces how a baritone pulled him back onto the stage in 1874 and how, in the very years he was touring Europe's grandest opera houses, the Paris Salon was hanging his marine paintings. You'll also hear about Antoine Roux, the painter who sketched these same fishing boats decades earlier.