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'''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.<ref name ="Martin">Martin J. ''Nos artistes des théâtres et concerts.'' Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1895.</ref>
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".<ref name="Soubies">Soubies A, Malherbe C. ''Histoire de l'opéra comique – La seconde salle Favart 1840–1887.'' Flammarion, Paris, 1893.</ref> He sang Remendado in the premiere of ''Carmen'' and returned to sing this role at the Opéra-Comique revivals of 1883,<ref>According to Soubies & Malherbe he sang in every performance of the first hundred of ''Carmen'' at the Salle Favart.</ref> 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.<ref name="Wolff">Wolff S. ''Un demi-siècle d'Opéra-Comique (1900–1950).'' André Bonne, Paris, 1953.</ref>
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'').<ref name="Soubies"/><ref name="Wolff"/>
His last recorded performances are in 1900,<ref name="Wolff"/> the year of his death.<ref>Stoullig E. ''Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 26eme edition, 1900.'' Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1901.</ref>
==Roles created== Among thirty Opéra-Comique premieres<ref name ="Martin"/> 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<ref name="Wolff"/>
Barnolt also sang in the Paris premieres of ''Werther'' (Schmidt) in 1893, ''Falstaff'' (Bardolphe) in 1894 and ''La bohème'' (Parpignol) 1898.<ref name ="Martin"/>
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