Not a major studio, not a big organization, just three guys in a
virtual garage -- Mike Richter (publisher and janitor), Allen Combs
(audio engineer) and Eduardo Gabarra (graphic design) -- have come up an
extraordinary CD-ROM (computer-playable only) of FIRST OPERA RECORDINGS,
going back almost a century!
As with a couple of other recent projects, Mike is turning distribution
over to Opera Classics (http://www.operaclassics.com/), which MAY have it
ready in mid-October. *No, not now*...:)
As before, with other MikeProjects, the price is kept under $10 for many
hours of music that you cannot possibly find anywhere else.
Likely contents:
Bizet: Carmen
(Berlin, 1908; Destinn, Nast, Joern, Bachman)
Gounod: Faust
(Berlin, 1908; La Scala, 1918; Destinn/Bosini,
Joern/Romagnoli; Knuepfer/Autori)
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
(La Scala 1907, 1918, British National Opera, 1927;
Huguet/Conti/Licette, Paoli/Bolis/Mullings)
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana
(Berlin 1909, La Scala 1916, British National 1927;
Rose/Ermolli/Blyth; Naval/Tumminello/Nash)
Puccini: La boheme
(La Scala 1918; Bosini, Giana, Andreini)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
(UK [Goossens] 1922; Buckmann, Davies, Ranalow)
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
(La Scala 1919; Pereira, Taliani, Badini)
Verdi: Aida
(Columbia 1912; Armanini, Beinat, Tommasini,
Toninello, Bettoni)
Verdi: Rigoletto
(Paris 1912, La Scala 1916, 1917, San Carlo 1918;
Vallandri/Ferraris/Borghi-Zerni/De Angelis,
Lassalle/Taccani/Broccardi/De Lucia,
Note'/Formichi/Danise & Badini/Armentano)
Verdi: La traviata
(Paris 1912, La Scala 1915; Morlet/Bevignani,
Trosselli/Tuminello, Albers/Badini)
Verdi: Il trovatore
(Paris 1912; Morlet, Lapeyrette, Fontaine, Note')
Wagner: The Ring - Excerpts
(English recordings, with Coates, Goossens, Pitt,
Roland conducting; German artists
in Paris 1928; Gottlieb, Schram-Tchoerner, Klose,
Kirchoff, Weber)
Wagner: Tannhauser - Act II
(Berlin 1909; Krull, Vogelstrom, Weil)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Act III
(London Symphony 1927; Ljungberg, Widdop)
Wagner: Die Walkure - Act I
(Bluethner 1913; Denera, Decker, Schwegler)
Gilbert and Sullivan Operas
(Mikado 1917, Ruddigore 1922, Princess Ida 1924,
HMS Pinafore 1922)
Kurzoper - sets of highlights: Boheme (Roswaenge),
Carmen (Ruziczka-Roswaenge), Freischuetz (Marherr-
Soot-Ernster), Lohengrin (Malkin-Wolff), Martha
(Mayen-Mueller-Transky)
Janos Gereben/SF
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