La Peau de chagrin
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".