Forgotten Opera Singers

Forgotten Opera Singers

Jul 7, 2013

LISTEN TO SOME FULL RECORDS


Emma Carelli Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) Io sono l'umile ancella 39734 XPh1978




















Florencio Constantino Vidalitá (Canción Popular Argentina) Columbia 13 4056
















Charles Rousseliere Herodiade (Gounod) Air de Jean 2-32818 1805F





















Francisco Vinas Lohengrin Racconto di Graal 052002 Con531R




















Giovanni Inghilleri Andrea Chenier Nemico della patria Fonotipia 120193 XXPh6426




















Tito Schipa Tosca: E lucevan le stelle Pathe 80843 10315




















Tino Folgar,  Laura Nieto Luisa Fernanda Mazurca de las sombrillas Gramophone DA4216

















Nino Piccaluga Werther: Ah! non mi ridestar Parlophon P.8913-II 20998




















Rosetta Pampanini Turandot Signore ascolta Columbia D12548 B1377



















Amedeo Bassi Tosca Recondita armonia Pathe 4241













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  1. DavidFebruary 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM

    Thank you for these records! It's nice to hear that Constantino can sing mezza voce, though it is a pity that he doesn't have the variety of shading that can sustain a whole piece at that dynamic... Carelli & Bassi are fascinating recordings (Bassi's partly because it doesn't seem very individual - I'd expected him to do better with Puccini!) & it's lovely to hear Rousseliere in Massenet. Vinas in Lohengrin is a lovely record: bizarrely, it is the one I have in my aural memory against which all other Lohengrins are measured ! :-)

    Thanks again!

    David

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    1. Ashot ArakelyanFebruary 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM

      Thank you Dear David for your interesting comments
      All the best
      Ashot

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    2. DavidFebruary 13, 2014 at 3:15 PM

      PS that Schipa record sounds unusually baritonal in the low-lying lines at the beginning, and perhaps not as smooth as usual later on - is it an unusually early one?? Or perhaps just lower notes than usual - though why would he transpose down...?!

      And I forgot to say I couldn't BELIEVE that Piccaluga would break off the last syllable of 'trovera la lu - - ce' in Werther - that was bad! But then he does make the lines quite choppy and separated instead of smooth all the way through in his search for drama in the versimo style so perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised :-)

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    3. Ashot ArakelyanFebruary 13, 2014 at 10:56 PM

      Dear David thank you for your comment, Schipa recorded this in 1919 at Milan, I think Piccaluga was one of the best italian dramatic tenors of the 1920's.
      All the best
      Ashot

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  2. DeborahSeptember 19, 2014 at 11:52 PM

    Do you have any recordings or full records of Louis Dornay? He was my grandfather's brother and I don't have any records of him.

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    1. Ashot ArakelyanSeptember 20, 2014 at 7:06 AM

      Hello. Yes, I have 5 recordings of Louis Dornay. See in his section.
      All the best
      Ashot

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