Barnolt was the stage name of Paul Fleuret (14 June 1839 – 15 June 1900), a French operatic tenor associated with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Career After a year of study at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Charles Bataille, Barnolt made his debut at the Folies-Marigny and further appearances at the Fantaisies-Parisiennes (1866) where he began to take on roles in the trial repertoire.Martin J. Nos artistes des théâtres et concerts. Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1895.
Barnolt made his debut at the Opéra-Comique on 23 July 1870 as Dandolo in Zampa and went on to become one of the "most useful and faithful servants of the Opéra-Comique".Soubies A, Malherbe C. Histoire de l'opéra comique – La seconde salle Favart 1840–1887. Flammarion, Paris, 1893. He sang Remendado in the premiere of Carmen and returned to sing this role at the Opéra-Comique revivals of 1883,According to Soubies & Malherbe he sang in every performance of the first hundred of Carmen at the Salle Favart. 1891, and 1898. He was on-stage singing Fréderic in Thomas' Mignon the night of the fire at the Salle Favart on 25 May 1887.Wolff S. Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900–1950). André Bonne, Paris, 1953.
At the Opéra-Comique he also sang the roles of Ali-bajou (Le Caïd), Lillas Pastia (Carmen), Dickson (La dame blanche), Bertrand (Le déserteur), Thibaut (Les dragons de Villars), Beppo (Fra Diavolo), Midas (Galathée), le Poète (Louise), Benetto (Le maître de chapelle), Fréderic (Mignon), Basilio (The Marriage of Figaro), Blaise (Le Nouveau Seigneur de village), Cantarelli (Le Pré aux clercs), Guillaume (Richard Coeur-de-lion), Scapin (La Serva Padrona), and Mouck (La statue).
His last recorded performances are in 1900, the year of his death.Stoullig E. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 26eme edition, 1900. Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1901.
Roles created Among thirty Opéra-Comique premieres were: Pacôme in Le roi l'a dit, 1873 Remendado in Carmen, 1875 Ridendo in Les Noces de Fernande, 1878 Séraphin in Le Pain bis, 1879 Desfonandrès/1st médecin in L’amour médecin, 1880 Trivelin in Joli Gilles, 1884 Basile in Le roi malgré lui, 1887 Gil in Proserpine, 1887 Guillaume in La Basoche, 1890 Cynalopex in Phryné, 1893
Barnolt also sang in the Paris premieres of Werther (Schmidt) in 1893, Falstaff (Bardolphe) in 1894 and La bohème (Parpignol) 1898.
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