Adolphe Nourrit
Adolphe Nourrit (born March 3, 1802 in Montpellier , Département Hérault , † March 8, 1839 in Naples ) was a French opera singer ( tenor ), librettist and composer .
Career
Adolphe Nourrit was born the son of the opera tenor Louis Nourrit (1780-1831). When he made his professional operatic debut in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride in 1821 , Nourrit was 19 years old. In 1826 he succeeded his father as chief tenor of the Académie Royale and held this position until 1836. He became a student of Gioachino Rossini and was the first interpreter of the tenor roles in Rossini's French operas.
Over time he gained considerable power at the Opéra. He has been consulted by composers and his approval has been sought for work in progress. In 1827 he was appointed head of the Conservatoire de Paris . He studied games with Donizetti in Naples and made his debut there in 1838.
Nourrit wrote many librettos for ballets at the Opéra, and in 1832 wrote the libretto for the romantic ballet La Sylphide . In 1836 he got hoarse during a performance at the Opéra and then turned to lieder singing. However, his physical and mental health was soon severely damaged, and in 1839 he committed suicide.
He was buried in the Montmartre cemetery with his wife, who died giving birth and only survived him a few months .
Tenor roles in world premieres
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- Lindor in La belle au bois dormant by Michele Carafa (March 2, 1825, Paris)
- Néocles in Le siège de Corinthe by Gioachino Rossini (October 9, 1826, Paris)
- Aménophis in Moïse et Pharaon by Rossini (March 26, 1827, Paris)
- Masaniello in La muette de Portici by Daniel Auber (February 29, 1828, Paris)
- Title role in Le comte Ory by Rossini (August 20, 1828, Paris)
- Arnold Melchtal in Guillaume Tell by Rossini (August 3, 1829, Paris)
- Title role in Robert le diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer (November 21, 1831, Paris)
- Title role in Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué by Auber (February 27, 1833, Paris)
- Nadir in Ali Baba by Luigi Cherubini (July 22, 1833, Paris)
- Eléazar in La Juive by Jacques Fromental Halévy (February 23, 1835, Paris)
- Raoul de Nangis in Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer (February 29, 1836, Paris)
- Title role in Stradella by Louis Niedermeyer (March 3, 1837, Paris)
- Ubaldo in Elena da Feltre by Saverio Mercadante (January 1, 1839, Naples)
literature
- Louis-Marie Quicherat: Adolphe Nourrit (3 vols.), Paris 1967
- Henry Pleasants (ed.) The Great Tenor Tragedy: The Last Days of Adolphe Nourrit . Amadeus Press 1995. ISBN 978-0-931340-89-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Th. Seedorf: Nourrit, Adolphe , in: MGG, Vol. 12, Col. 1213-1215.
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| SURNAME | Nourrit, Adolphe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French opera singer (tenor), librettist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier , Hérault department |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1839 |
| Place of death | Naples |