Émilienne de Sère was a French operetta and café-concert singer active from 1894 to 1904.

Life

Sère made her debut at the

Menus-Plaisirs The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi () was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the Maison du Roi responsible for the "lesser pleasures of the King", which meant in practice that it was in charge of al ...

in the revue ''Que d'eau ! Que d'eau !'' She then moved on to various other stages and sang in Parisian salons. She entered the Théâtre-Moderne, from where she left for Bucharest, where she was offered a favourable engagement. On her return, she stayed away from the theatre.

Édouard Marchand Jules Édouard Marchand (20 October 1859 – 8 February 1905Casino de Paris in 1898 and created the role of Thaïs in the bouffe fantasy ''Othello chez Thaïs'' at the Bouffes de Bordeaux the same year. She performed at the Alcazar de BruxellesAlcazar royal or Fantaisies-Parisiennes and at the in Naples in 1899, at the in Moscow in 1900 at the Alcazar of Marseille in 1901 in Roma in Naples at the Kursaal or "Nouveau-Théâtre" in Geneva at the Palace Theatre, London in 1902, then in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Vienna and at the Central-Theatre in Leipzig in 1903. She led the revue ''Bruxelles ! tout le monde… monte'', at the Cirque Royal in Brussels for 3 months in 1904. She performed again at the London Palace Theatre in 1904.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sere, Emilienne de 19th-century French women singers 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Place of birth missing