François Wartel

Pierre-François Wartel (born Versailles, 3 April 1806; died Paris 3 August 1882) 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.

[1][2][3][4][5] In 1825 François Wartel enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire as a pupil of Fromental Halévy, but soon thereafter began studies in Choron's Institut de la Musique Religieuse.

[1][2] From 1831 to 1846 he played small tenor parts at the Paris Opera, where he created the role of Francesco in Berlioz's Benvenuto Celini (10 September 1838)[6] and roles in two operas by Donizetti, Néarque in Les martyrs (10 April 1840) and Don Gaspar in La favorite (2 December 1840).

[7] He also played Ottokar in the Berlioz version of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz (7 June 1841).