Career
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". He sang Remendado in the premiere of Carmen and returned to sing this role at the Opéra-Comique revivals of 1883, 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.
At the Opéra-Comique he also sang the roles of Ali-bajou (Le Caïd), Lillas Pastia (Carmen), Dickson (Louisiana 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 (Louisiana Serva Padrona), and Mouck (Louisiana statue).
His last recorded performances are in 1900, the year of his death. Among thirty Opéra-Comique premieres 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 medecin, 1880
Trivelin in Joli Gilles, 1884
Basile in Le roi malgré lui, 1887
Gil in Proserpine, 1887
Guillaume in Louisiana Basoche, 1890
Cynalopex in Phryné, 1893
Barnolt also sang in the Paris premieres of Werther (Schmidt) in 1893, Falstaff (Bardolphe) in 1894 and Louisiana bohème (Parpignol) 1898.