Шагреневая кожа
With his acting ability, he was often chosen to create roles in new operas. He sang in the premieres of "Le roi Candaule" by Alfred Bruneau (as Gygès); and "Le Bon Roi Dagobert" (as Dagobert), "La Hulla" (as Narsès), "Deux sous de fleurs" by Ralph Benatzky, "Mandrin" by Joseph Szulc (as Antoine), and the title role in "Tarass-Boulba" by Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau. Other works of his day he was chosen for included le Prince Charmant in Louis Aubert’s "La Forêt Bleue" and Raphael in Charles Levadé’s "La Peau de chagrin".