Émile Scaremberg

French opera singer

Opera singer (Tenor)
Music educator

Émile Scaremberg (26 April 1863 – 26 February 1938) was a French tenor.

Biography

Scaremberg (sometime spelled Scaramberg) was born in Besançon in Franche-Comté.^[1] After studying in Paris, he took singing lessons in the Comtoise capital with a tenor known as Perrin and continued his studies with Charles Nicot (1843–1899).^[1] Scaremberg made his début at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in April 1893 in Grétry's "Richard Coeur-de-Lion" and stayed with the company for two years.^[1] He also began to appear in opera houses in the cities of Bordeaux, Lyon (where he sang Werther), Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Vichy and, in 1894, he sang Turiddu in Monte-Carlo.^[1] He is included in one of the greatest compilation of classical singing, The EMI Record of Singing. Scaremberg also performed in 1897 à the hotel of Besançon-les-Bains [fr], in Roméo et Juliette, la Favorite as well as in Lakmé.^[2] He participated in many performances, as in London and Belgium, before sudden vocal difficulties forced him to return to Besançon to teach singing.^[1]

He died 26 February 1938 in his hometown^[1] and was buried in the cimetière des Chaprais [fr].

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Biographie d'Émile Scaremberg sur Historyofthetenor.com (accessdate 11 February 2018)
^ (in French) Jean-Pierre Gavignet; Lyonel Estavoyer (1989). Besançon autrefois (in French). Horvath. p. 175. ISBN 2-7171-0685-5. - page 105.