Louis Émile Wartel was an opera singer and teacher active in Paris. He was the son of the musicians François Wartel

François Wartel

Pierre François Wartel, was a French tenor and music educator. His wife was Thérèse Wartel, a talented pianist, and their son Émile was a bass who sang and created several operatic roles between 1857 and 1870 at the Théâtre Lyrique and later founded his own singing school.-Biography:In 1825...

 and Thérèse Wartel

Thérèse Wartel

Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien, was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.-Biography:...

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Life and career

Wartel was an established singer at the Théâtre Lyrique

Théâtre Lyrique

The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century . The company was founded in 1847 as the Opéra-National by the French composer Adolphe Adam and renamed Théâtre Lyrique in 1852...

 in Paris from 1858 until 1868, creating many baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

 roles in new operas premiered there.

His repertoire was:

1858

• Valère in Le médecin malgré lui
  Le médecin malgré lui (opera)
  Le médecin malgré lui is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Molière's play, also entitled Le Médecin malgré lui.-Performance history:It premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris on 15 January 1858...
  
  (premiere)
• Bartholo in Les noces de Figaro
  The Marriage of Figaro
  Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
  
  
• Lysandre in L'agneau de Chloé (premiere)
• Gambara in Le harpe d'or (premiere)

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
  La statue
  La statue is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by Ernest Reyer to the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on tales from One Thousand and One Nights and La statue merveilleuse, an 1810 carnival play by Alain-René Lesage and Jacques-Philippe d'Orneval.Although in its story opera...
  
  (premiere)
• le Marquis in Le café du roi
• Placidus in La nuit aux gondoles (premiere)
• Don Gregorio in Le tête enchantée (premiere)

1862

• Utobal in Joseph
  Joseph (opera)
  Joseph is an opera in three acts by the French composer Étienne Méhul. The libretto, by Alexandre Duval, is based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. The work was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 17 February 1807 at the Théâtre Feydeau...
  
  
• l'Ogre de la forêt in La chatte merveilleuse (premiere)

1863

• Don Armado in Peines d'amours perdues
  Così fan tutte
  Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte....
  
  
• Sparafucile in Rigoletto
  Rigoletto
  Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
  
  

1864

• Ambroise in Mireille
  Mireille (opera)
  Mireille is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio.-Composition history:...
  
  (premiere)
• Le baron in Violetta
  La traviata
  La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...
  
  
• Le docteur in Le cousin Babylas (premiere)

1865

• Candaule in Le roi Candaule (premiere)
• Le bourgmestre in Lisbeth ou la Cinquantaine
• Lord Tristan in Martha
  Martha (opera)
  Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond is a 'romantic comic' opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow, set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges....
  
  

1866

• Ford in Les joyeuses commères de Windsor
  The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)
  The Merry Wives of Windsor is an opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Hermann Salomon Mosenthal, based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare....
  
  
• Van Daff in Les dragées de Suzette (premiere)

1867

• le Duc de Vérone in Roméo et Juliette
  Roméo et Juliette
  Roméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris on 27 April 1867...
  
  (premiere)
• Simon Glover in La jolie fille de Perth
  La jolie fille de Perth
  La jolie fille de Perth is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet , from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the novel by Sir Walter Scott...
  
  (premiere)

1868

• Pandolphe in L'irato
  L'irato
  L'irato, ou L'emporté is an opéra-comique in one act by the French composer Étienne Méhul with a libretto by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier. It was first performed at the Théâtre Favart, Paris on 17 February 1801...
  
  
• Toby in Le brasseur de Preston