Louis Nourrit

Louis Nourrit (4 August 1780, Montpellier[1] – 23 September 1831, Brunoy[1]) was an early 19th-century French tenor.

[2] After he left Montpellier, he was admitted at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1802 where he received lessons from Pierre-Jean Garat.

[2] Other roles included those of Orphée in Aladin ou La lampe merveilleuse, an opéra féerie of 1822 by Nicolò), Harem in La caravane du Caire by Grétry, and Colin in Le devin du village.

[1] In 1821 he saluted his son Adolphe's tenor debut in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, by appearing in the minor role of a Scythian;[3] in 1824 they co-starred in Les deux Salem by Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul; and they finally appeared together in Gioacchino Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe in 1826.

This was the last stage appearance of Louis who thus left his position as the Opéra's principal tenor to his son.