Adolphe Nourrit

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Adolphe Nourrit (March 3, 1802 - March 7, 1839) was a French tenor.

A native of Montpellier, Nourrit was one of the most respected opera singers in the 1820s and 1830s. Some of the roles he performed include Masaniello in Auber's La Muette de Portici, Eleazar in Halévy's La Juive, Raoul in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and Robert in Robert le Diable also composed by the latter. Rossini notably composed the role of Neocles in Le Siège de Corinthe for him.

Beside singing, Nourrit composed and wrote scenarios for ballets at the Opéra de Paris.

The duet "Amour sacré de la patrie", performed in Brussels on August 25, 1830, with Adolphe Nourrit in the tenor role, became the key of the "opera riot" that sparked the Belgian Revolution.

Nourrit's fame faded in the late 1830s as new singers gained the favour of the Parisian public. He left France, and installed himself in Naples. Overwhelmed by melancholy he committed suicide by jumping out of a window.