L'irato, ou L'emporté (The Angry Man) is an opéra-comique (styled an opéra parade) in one act by the French composer Étienne Méhul with a French-language libretto by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier.

Written in a lighter style than Méhul's operas of the 1790s, L'irato is famous for being part of a deception the composer played on his friend Napoleon Bonaparte.

Méhul had been introduced to Napoleon by his wife Josephine and attended weekly meetings with the future emperor at his residence at Malmaison.

In fact he did, but preferred the Italian operas of composers such as Giovanni Paisiello, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Domenico Cimarosa.

According to the harpist Martin Pierre d'Alvimare, Napoleon criticised Méhul "for emulating in his works an all too Teutonic style, more scientific than pleasing."

On 7 February 1801 the Journal de Paris announced the forthcoming performance of a translation of an Italian piece, L'irato, at the Opéra-Comique.

Isabelle hopes that by pretending to be vain and fickle she will put Balouard off (Aria: J'ai de la raison).

Scapin encourages Lysandre to drown his sorrows with the equally sad Balouard and the three sing in praise of wine and woman (Trio: Femme jolie et du bon vin).