Soon after this they were replaced definitively as the first men of the operatic stage by a new breed of heroic tenor, as first incarnated by the Frenchman Gilbert-Louis Duprez, the earliest so-called "king of the high Cs".
Kort tid herefter blev de erstattet endeligt som operaens førstemænd med en ny type heroisk tenor som franskmanden Gilbert-Louis Duprez, der bar titlen "kongen af de høje C'er".