Emil Scaria

Emil Scaria

Emil Scaria (September 18, 1838 – July 23, 1886) was an Austrian bass-baritone. Born in Graz, he studied at the conservatory in Vienna before making his deput in Pest in 1860; he sang the role of St. Bris in Les Huguenots. He was a failure, and abandoned the stage entirely in favor of further study; he selected Manuel García as his new teacher. Though he returned to the stage in Dessau, he did not see success until he sang at the Crystal Palace in London in 1862. In 1863 he appeared with the Leipzig Opera; in 1864 he was working in Dresden. He was engaged by the Vienna State Opera in 1872. In 1882 he created the role of Gurnemanz in Parsifal for Richard Wagner at Bayreuth. Scaria died in Blasewitz, in Germany, in 1886.

Roles

World premieres

• 1868 Franz von Holstein: Der Haideschacht – Königliches Hoftheater Dresden
• 1882 Richard Wagner: Parsifal – Bayreuther Festspiele (Gurnemanz)

Repertoire

Auber: Pietro in La muette de Portici Grafen Juliano und Gil-Perez in Le domino noir Ferdinando VI of Spain in La part du diable Beethoven: Rocco in Fidelio Bizet: Escamillo in Carmen Brüll: Bombardon in Das goldene Kreuz Fanfaron in Bianca Donizetti: Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia Sulpice in La fille du régiment Marchese von Boisfleury in Linda von Chamounix Dom Juan in Dom Sébastien Gluck: Hercules in Alceste Calchas in Iphigenie in Aulis Gounod: Mephisto in Faust Halévy: Kardinal Brogni in Die Jüdin Lortzing: Van Bett in Zar und Zimmermann Title role in Der Waffenschmied Meyerbeer: Bertram in Robert le diable Marcell and Graf von Saint-Bris in Les Huguenots Count Obertal in Le prophète Gritzenko in L'étoile du nord High Priest of Brahma in L’Africaine

Mozart: Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail Title role in Der Schauspieldirektor Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro Leporello and Komtur in Don Giovanni Sarastro and Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte Nicolai: Falstaff in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Rossini: Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia Walter Furst in Guillaume Tell Schumann: Siegfried in Genoveva Thomas: Claudius and First gravedigger in Hamlet Verdi: Ramfis in Aida Wagner: Der Kardinal in Rienzi Title role in Der fliegende Holländer Landgraf in Tannhäuser König Heinrich in Lohengrin König Marke in Tristan und Isolde Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Wotan in Das Rheingold Wotan in Die Walküre Wanderer in Siegfried Gurnemanz in Parsifal Weber: Kaspar in Der Freischütz Lysiart in Euryanthe

References

• David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.
• C. M. Gruber, H. Reitterer: Scaria, Emil (1840-1886), Sänger, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950, retrieved November 1, 2016