Émile Wartel

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Louis Émile Wartel (31 March 1834, Paris – 5 May 1907, Paris)Chitty, Alexis; Brown, Maurice J.E.; Ellis, Katharine. "Wartel" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 2001. {{ISBN|978-1-56159-239-5}} (hardcover). {{OCLC|419285866}} (eBook). was an opera singer and teacher active in Paris. He was the son of the musicians François Wartel and Thérèse Wartel.Fétis F-J. Thérèse Wartel. In: Biographie universelle des musiciens, supplement, vol 2. Paris, 1878. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vdsuAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA662 View] at Google Books.

Life and career

Wartel was an established singer at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris from 1858 until 1868, creating many baritone roles in new operas premiered there.Walsh TJ. Second Empire Opera – The Théâtre-Lyrique Paris 1851-1870. John Calder Ltd, London, 1981. {{ISBN|978-0-7145-3659-0}}.

His repertoire was:

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1858

1859

  • Omar in Abou Hassan
  • l’Agent de Cardinal Mazarin in Les petits violons du roi (premiere)

1860

  • le Docteur Sangrado in Gil Blas (premiere)
  • le Marquis de Panillac in Les valets de Gascogne (premiere)
  • Père Richard in L'auberge des Ardennes (premiere)
  • Monsieur Oronte in Crispin, rival de son maitre (premiere)
  • le Capitaine Barbagallo in Les pêcheurs de Catane (premiere)

1861

  • Magnus and Astaroth in Astaroth (premiere)
  • Monsieur d’Assonvilliers in Madame Grégoire (premiere)
  • Badroulboudour in Les deux cadis (premiere)
  • Kaloum in La statue (premiere)
  • le Marquis in Le café du roi
  • Placidus in La nuit aux gondoles (premiere)
  • Don Gregorio in Le tête enchantée (premiere)

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1862

  • Utobal in Joseph
  • l'Ogre de la forêt in La chatte merveilleuse (premiere)

1863

1864

  • Ambroise in Mireille (premiere)
  • Le baron in Violetta
  • Le docteur in Le cousin Babylas (premiere)

1865

1866

1867

1868

  • Pandolphe in L'irato
  • Toby in Le brasseur de Preston

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