He also appeared at the French Opera in New Orleans in the 1873-1874 season. On the international stage Guéymard was a guest artist at the Royal Opera House in London in 1854.
He created roles in several world premieres with that company, including Philippe d'Autriche in Louis Clapisson's Jeanne la folle (1848), Jonas in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète (1849), Phaon in Charles Gounod's Sapho (1851), Rodolphe in Armand Limnander's Le maître chanteur (1853), Rodolphe in Gounod's La nonne sanglante (1854), Henri in Giuseppe Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes (1855), Fromental Halévy's La magicienne (1858), Julien de Médicis in Józef Michał Poniatowski's Pierre de Médicis (1860), Adoniram in Gounod's La reine de Saba (1862), and Roland in Auguste Mermet's Roland à Roncevaux (1864).
In 1848 Guéymard became a leading tenor at the Paris Opera where he sang until 1868.
He made his opera debut there in 1845 and then pursued further voice studies at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1846-1848. He then received voice training at the Opéra National de Lyon. In 1905 he gave up this activity.īorn in Chaponnay. In the years 1892-97 he lived as a singing teacher in New York then he became a director of the Grand Opera of Paris. Lionel 'Marta", Faust, Elvino ,and Ernesto.With Mapelson he went to the USA where he was regular visitor until 1884, again at the New York Metropolitan Opera 1891-1892 He made his debut there as Gounod's Faust and sang seven roles: the Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor ', in Wilhelm Meister' Mignon 'of A.Thomas, Count Almaviva in" The Barber of Sevbilla', the Alfredo in "La Traviata 'Tybalt in' Romeo et Juliette 'by Gounod, the Enzo in "La Gioconda" by Ponchielli and worked among others in 1891 in the Metropolitan premiere of Verdi's' Othello' as Cassio with. during which he sought asylum in England, There he joined the Mapelson Company at Drury Lane, making his debut as Faust in Gounod's "'Faust " then 1871-75 at the Italian Opera London At London he appeared at Covent Garden for the first time in 1877, as Fra Diavolo. By 1870, he remained at the Opéra-Comique as principal tenor until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. He debuted in 1861 at the Opéra-Comique Paris as Daniel in 'Le chalet' of Adam. He began his studies in 1859 at the Conservatoire of Paris.
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