Léon Escalaïs

Escalaïs website, managed by Serge Escalaïs

Léon Escalaïs sings Il trovatore: Supplice infâme

Léon Escalaïs sings Polyeucte: Source délicieuse
In RA format

Léon Escalaïs sings Le Cid: Ô souverain
In RA format

Léon Escalaïs sings Otello: Dio, mi potevi scagliar
In RA format

Léon Escalaïs sings Sigurd: Avec ces fleurs, with Amelia Talexis
In RA format

Léon Escalaïs sings Robert le diable: Ô fortune, à ton caprice
In RA format
I would like to thank Serge Escalaïs for the recordings (Sigurd, Otello).
Repertory

Sardanapale – Paris, Théâtre du Chateau d'Eau, 7 December 1882 (concert of excerpts)
Guillaume Tell – Paris, Opéra, 12 October 1883
La Juive – Paris, Opéra, 28 December 1883
Robert le diable – Paris, Opéra, 5 May 1884
Les huguenots – Paris, Opéra, 8 September 1884
L'Africaine – Paris, Opéra, 21 August 1885
Sigurd – Paris, Opéra, 7 September 1885
Zaïre – Paris, Opéra, 28 May 1890
Le mage – Paris, Opéra, 1891 (after March 16)
Samson et Dalila – Marseille, Grand Théâtre, 15 January 1895
Salammbô (Shahababurim) – Marseille, Grand Théâtre, 5 February 1895
Le prophète – Marseille, Grand Théâtre It has not been confirmed yet that he sang it in Marseille for the first time, however he sang it in other places
Messaline – Marseille, Grand Théâtre, 18 December 1903
Le trouvère – Marseille, Grand Théâtre, 1904
Le roi de Lahore – Marseille, Grand Théâtre, 4 April 1905
Aida – Paris, Opéra, 21 December 1908
References:
  • Le ténor Léon Escalaïs, I. Sa vie et sa carrière, Jean-Pierre Mouchon and Serge Escalaïs (illustrations), Association Internationale du Chant Lyrique, 2007
  • Victor Combarnous, L'histoire du Grand Théâtre de Marseille, 1787–1919
  • Le Figaro, 1882
  • Stéphane Wolff, L'Opéra au Palais Garnier, 1875–1962
  • Albert Soubies, L'almanach des spectacles
  • Nöel et Stoullig, Les annales du théâtre et de la musique
  • Discography

    Click here for Escalaïs' complete 78rpm discography (all on Fonotipia, Milano)

    LP
    Odeon ODX 145 Recital
    Odeon 500-1-2 L'Age d'Or de l'Opéra de Paris (Il trovatore)
    OASI 597 (2 records) Recital
    Preiser CO 426 Recital
    Rococo 5278 Recital
    TAP 303 20 Tenors (Samson et Dalila)
    TAP 314 20 Verdi Operas (Jérusalem)
    TAP 317 20 Great French Singers (L'Africaine)
    TAP 326 Stars of La Scala (Il trovatore)
    TAP 328 3 Melodists of Italian Opera (Guillaume Tell)
    TAP 333 20 Di quella pira
    Eterna 707 Rossini Recital (Guillaume Tell trio with Luppi and Magini-Coletti)
    Eterna 708 Famous French Tenors (Il trovatore)
    IRCC 7012 (10") I lombardi and Otello

    45 rpm Belcanto Discs
    EB 4 Jérusalem, Guillaume Tell, Le mage, La Juive
    EB 14 Robert le diable (other singers Vignas, Anselmi)
    EB 53 Il trovatore, Samson et Dalila, L'Africaine

    Compact Disc
    Symposium 1126 (The Harold Wayne Collection, volume 14)
    Symposium 1128 (The Harold Wayne Collection, volume 15, with recordings by Victor Maurel and Felia Litvinne)
    I wish to thank Alfred de Cock for the LP discography.

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