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"From Which We Came" presents many of the earliest recording of operas. Dating from...
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This volume of the Audio Encyclopedia presents many of the earliest recording
of operas. Dating from 1907 to 1930, we present complete operas, complete Acts,
abridgements and pastiches - the various forms in which albums were issued and
treasured in the first third of the twentieth century.
Note that some sides of several recordings have eluded our search; nevertheless, we
believe that these are as nearly complete recordings as can be assembled today.
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In addition to the recordings tabulated below, we offer four Gilbert and
Sullivan operas recorded between 1917 and 1924: HMS Pinafore, Mikado, Princess
Ida and Ruddigore. There are also five Kurzoper: Boheme, Carmen, Freischütz,
Lohengrin and Martha. They are German-language abridgements of the early electrical
era - antecedents of the Grosser Querschnitt LP's of three decades later.
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| Title |
Year |
Cast |
| Aida |
1912 |
various |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia |
1919 |
Sabajno; Badini, Taliani; Pereira |
| La boheme |
1918 |
Sabajno; Bosini, Giana; Andreini, Badini |
| Carmen |
1908 |
Seidler-Winkler; Destinn; Jörn (German) |
| Cavalleria rusticana |
1909 |
Kark; Rose, Hempel; Naval (German) |
| Cavalleria rusticana |
1916 |
Sabajno; Ermolli, Ravelli; Tumminello |
| Cavalleria rusticana |
1927 |
Buesst; Blyth, Parry; Nash (English) |
| Faust |
1908 |
Seidler-Winkler; Jörn, Knüpfer; Destinn (German)
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| Faust |
1918 |
Sabajno; Romagnoli, Autori; Bosini (Italian) |
| Madama Butterfly |
1927 |
Goossens; Buckman; Davies (English) |
| Pagliacci |
1907 |
Sabajno; Paoli; Huguet |
| Pagliacci |
1918 |
Sabajno; Bolis; Conti |
| Pagliacci |
1927 |
Goossens; Mullings; Licette (English) |
| Rigoletto |
1912 |
Ruhlmann; Noté, Lassalle;Vallandri (French) |
| Rigoletto |
1916 |
Sabajno; Formichi, Taccani; Ferraris |
| Rigoletto |
1917 |
Sabajno; various, Broccardi; various |
| Rigoletto |
1918 |
Sassano; Anticorona, de Lucia; de Angelis |
| Ring des Nibelungen |
1924 |
various (English) |
| Ring des Nibelungen |
1929 |
von Hoesslin; Weber, Kirchhoff; Gottlieb |
| Tannhäuser - Act II |
1909 |
Künneke; Vogelstrom, Weil; Krull |
| La traviata |
1912 |
Archinbaud; Morlet; Trosselli (French) |
| La traviata |
1915 |
Sabajno; Bevignani; Tumminello |
| Tristan und Isolde - Act III |
1928 |
Coates/Blech; Ljungberg; Widdop |
| Il trovatore |
1912 |
Ruhlman; Fontaine; Morlet, Lapeyrette (French) |
| Walküre - Act I |
1913 |
von Strauss; Denera; Decker, Schwegler |
Clips with Descriptions
The earliest opera recording distributed as a set was in fact a pastiche of
Ernani assembled from recordings by various artists in 1905-06. During
the quarter-century which followed a bewildering array of individual Acts,
abridged complete operas and additional assemblages were published, often
claiming a completeness which would have astonished their composers.
One virtue of these early recordings is their insight into production
practice. Another is to hear artists otherwise little known, known only from
unrepresentative fragments or in smaller rôles than they documented
later. I have chosen three of those "small" roles from this CD-ROM
for these examples.
Frieda Hempel was a lyric soprano of the first half of the
century who was most noted for her portrayal of the Marschallin beginning in
1913. Her range is suggested by Beecham selecting her as the Königin der
Nacht for a celebrated production in 1914. Yet we hear her here from a complete
1909 German Cavalleria rusticana as Lola - a
rôle usually assigned to a mezzo.
Heddle Nash was the preeminent English lyric tenor of his
day. Perhaps best known as Rodolfo in Beecham's recording of Boheme Act
IV, we hear him as Harlequin from a complete English
Pagliacci (1927).
Julius Lieban (1857-1940) began and ended his career as a
baritone, but sang tenor roles from 1822 until a final Mime in Berlin on his
75th birthday. Here he is as Ko-Ko in a German version
of Tit-Willow from The Mikado (GC 3-42819) (1907)
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