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 in the

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''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.

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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

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in 1902, then in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Vienna and at the Central-Theatre in Leipzig in 1903. She led the

''Bruxelles ! tout le monde… monte'', at the

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in Brussels for 3 months in 1904. She performed again at the London Palace Theatre in 1904.

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