Emile Scaramberg (Scaremberg) (Tenor) (Besancon, France 1863 - Besancon, France 1938)

He studied at the Paris Sainte-Marie Institute in and later with the tenor É. Perrin. He completed his vocal training with Charles Nicot and made his debut in 1893 at the Paris Opéra-Comique in ‘’Richard Coeur-de-Lion’’of Grétry. He remained two years at the Opéra-Comique and then sang at the opera houses of Nantes, Nice, Marseille, Bordeaux and Vichy. Guest performances followed in London (Covent Garden. 1897) and Monte Carlo. In the 1896-97 season he performed at the opera house of Nice as a partner of Nellie Melba. In 1897 Scaramberg was in Antwerp where he sang in Wagner’s ‘’Tannhauser’’. In the 1898-99 season he appeared at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Recruited by Pedro Gailhard, director of the Opéra, who heard him in Bordeaux, Scaramberg made his Palais Garnier debut as Lohengrin in 1903. From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the Grand Opéra in Paris (beginning role: Lohengrin). Here he appeared among other things in 1905 in an important performance of Gluck’s ‘’Armide’’. In 1907 he suddenly lost his voice and had to give up his career and lived then as a pedagogue in Besancon. 

Chronology of osme appearances

1897 Antwerp Opera House Tannhauser (Tannhauser) 

1903 Paris Palais Garnier Lohengrin (Lohengrin)
1903 Paris Grand Opera Lohengrin (Lohengrin)

RECORDINGS FOR SALE

 

Fonotipia Paris, 1904-01-01

Roméo et Juliette (Gounod):  Ah, lève-toi, soleil  39172 xph 640

Romeo et Juliette (Gounod): Scene du tombeau 39188 xph 664

Manon (Gounod):  Je suis seul…Ah! Fuyez, douce image 56048 xph 641

Fonotipia Paris, 1905-01-01

Fedora (Giordano): Amor ti vieta 39173 xph 673

Manon (Gounod):  Je suis seul…Ah! Fuyez, douce image 39174 xph 641

Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni): Sicilienne 39175 xph 665

Sigurd (Reyer): Entrée de Sigurd 39176 xph 672 

Rigoletto (Verdi): Comme la plume 39177 xph 663 

Carmen (Bizet): La fleur  39178 xph 660 

Werther (Massenet): Un autre est son époux… J’aurais sur ma poitrine 39179 xph 662 

Reine de Saba (Gounod):  Inspirez-moi, race divine  39180 xph 656

Rigoletto (Verdi): Ballade 39184 xph 751 

Africaine (Meyerbeer): O Paradiso 39185 xph750

Werther (Massenet): Pourquoi me réveiller 39186 xph 760 

Lohengrin (Wagner): Ah! respirons 39187 xph 661 

Mireille (Gounod): Anges du paradis  39189 xph 686

Paillasse (Leoncavallo): Grand Air 39358 xph 733

Favorite (Donizetti): Cavatine  39359 xph 734

Faust (Gounod): Cavatine 56045 xph 752 

Lakmé (Delibes): Fantaisie aux divins mensonges  56049 xph 687

Roméo et Juliette (Gounod): Madrigal with Georgette Bréjean-Silver 56051 xph 728

Si j’étais roi (Adam): J’ignore son nom 56074 xph 763

Mignon (Thomas): Elle ne croyait pas 56095 xph 762 

Faust (Gounod): Laissez-moi with Georgette Bréjean-Silver 86001 xxxph 691