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Giuseppina Huguet


From the great imported Milan recordings:

One of the most recognizable sopranos, the great Catalan singer Giuseppina Huguet. She was a vocal firecracker, covering the repertoire from high coloratura to lyrical and even mezzo roles. She recorded with many famous Milan singers, among them Fernando de Lucia 

She never made a dull record.

This recording is famous Church Scene from Faust complete with choir, orgain interlude and the amazing acoustics of early Milan G&T recordings

Faust Church Scene Part 1
Giuseppina HUGUET - Sopran, José TORRES DE LUNA - Bass

Gramophone & Typewriter Matrix Nr. 611 1/2 c
(& Orch. & Coro della Scala Milano, Carlo Sabajno cond)
rec. in Milano 1906


Orig  US Issue Victor Grand Prize 12" 78 rpm 

CONDITION: EXCELLENT MINUS unworn light scuffs, plays E very quiet light hiss 3 ticks at start

GREAT SOUND

A SUPERB COPY

And Bargain basement 1$ the 1905 imported recordings with the great Giuseppina Huguet. Though - not produced in US, no celebrity singers - these lowly black labels include some of the great Milan La Scala singers, and the higher fidelity and immediate G&T acoustics of these recordings make them rival some of the expensive ones


Giuseppina Huguet (1871–1951) was a Spanish operatic soprano with a lyrical voice who sang throughout Europe prior to World War I.

Huguet was born in 1871 and registered on official documents as "Josefina" Huguet. Her first music teacher was Francisco Bonet in Barcelona, where she soon made her operatic debut as Lakmé at the Teatro Liceu of Barcelona. She subsequently toured several countries, including some South American nations. She performed, too, with success in Italy, appearing for the first time at Milan's La Scala in 1896, where she sang the role of Ophélie in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet. Huguet proved popular in Russia as well.

Although Huguet often sang coloratura parts, such as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, she also undertook the verismo roles of Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and her recordings even include excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin (on which she is accompanied by the famous tenor Fernando De Lucia). Indeed, her complete repertoire contained a wide range of roles: from The Queen of Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute to Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.

Huguet's career as a recording artist was not particularly extensive. Her discography consists mainly of arias and ensemble pieces from opera that were made by the forerunner of HMV. She also sung the role of Nedda in the first complete recording of Pagliacci in 1907 (with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Carlo Sabajno conducting). Volume One of The Record of Singing by Michael Scott (Duckworth, London, 1977) contains a synopsis of her career and an appraisal of her records, some of which are available on CD transfers.

 


Salvador, Ines, Alt, * 1878 (?) Barcelona, † 1910 (?) London; über diese Künstlerin sind nur wenige, unvollständige biographische Daten bekannt. 1903 sang sie am Teatro Liceo Barcelona u.a. als Partnerin der berühmten Hariclea Darclée. In der Saison 1903-04 trat sie am Teatro Regio von Parma auf; hier sang sie die Preziosilla in Verdis »La forza del destino«, den Siebel in Gounods »Faust« und den Pagen Urbain in »Les Huguénots« von Meyerbeer. Man bewunderte neben der dunklen, ausdrucksstarken Tonfülle ihrer Stimme ihre schöne Bühnenerscheinung. Die Sängerin soll, wenig älter als dreißig Jahre, 1910 in London verstorben sein.

Schallplatten: 1907-08 erschienen einige G & T-Aufnahmen, darunter in erster Linie Szenen aus »Carmen«, dann ein Duett aus »Lohengrin« mit dem Tenor Renzo Minolfi, ein Duett mit dem Tenor Emanuele Ischierdo, eine Ensembleszene aus Verdis »Ballo in maschera« und eine kurze Passage als Lola in einer Szene aus »Cavalleria rusticana«.


 
Cigada, Francesco, Bariton, * 3.10.1878 Bergamo, å 6.8.1966 Caprino Bergamasco; er studierte in Mailand bei Vincenzo Sabatini und debntierte 1900 in Forli als Lescaut in +Manon Lescaut½ von Puccini. 1903 sang er in Rio de Janeiro, 1904 am Teatro Dal Verme in Mailand, seit 1905 gro¯e Erfolge am Teatro Costanzi in Rom, wo er als Mephisto in +La damnation de Faust½ debntierte und dann bis 1908 so unterschiedliche Partien wie den Alberich im +Rheingold½, den Jochanaan in +Salome½ von R. Strauss (1908) und den Athandl in +Thans½ von Massenet (mit Mattia Battistini in der Titelrolle!) nbernahm. 1913 trat er am Teatro Comunale Bologna als Telramund auf, bereits 1911 am Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua als Hans Sachs in den +Meistersingern½. Am 19.2.1914 sang er am Teatro Regio in Turin in der Urauffnhrung der Oper +Francesca da Rimini½ von Zandonai die Partie des Giovanni. 1914 gastierte er an der Covent Garden Oper London, wo er u.a. in den Premieren von Zandonais +Francesca da Rimini½ und Montemezzis +Amore dei tre Re½ mitwirkte. 1914 erschien er am ThTGtre des Champs-+lysTes in Paris zusammen mit dem Ensemble der Oper von Boston, obwohl er nie in den USA aufgetreten war. Bei diesem Gastspiel sang er den Manfredo in der franz÷sischen Erstauffnhrung von Montemezzis +Amore dei tre Re½ und den Lescaut in +Manon Lescaut½ von Puccini. Am Teatro Col=n Buenos Aires kreierte er in der Spielzeit 1919-20 Pizzettis +Fedra½ fnr Sndamerika und sang dort den Kurwenal im +Tristan½, den Amonasro in +Aida½ und den Hermann in Catalanis +Loreley½. 1918 wirkte er an der MailSnder Scala in der Urauffnhrung der Oper +La Nave½ von I. Montemezzi mit und sang hier auch den Amonasro sowie in der Urauffnhrungen der Opern +Ghismonda½ von Bianchi und +Urania½ von Farara (1918). 1921 gastierte er in Madrid als Wilhelm Tell in der Rossini-Oper gleichen Namens. Weitere Gastspiele in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile und Havanna. 1924 stand er letztmals in Bergamo (als Wilhelm Tell) auf der Bnhne. Nachdem er seine einzige Tochter im Alter von 21 Jahren verloren hatte, gab er seine Karriere auf und lebte zurnckgezogen in seiner Villa bei Bergamo.

Die sch÷ne Baritonstimme des Knnstlers ist auf vielen Schallplatten der Marke G & T erhalten, die jedoch alle zu Beginn seiner Karriere in den Jahren 1905-08 entstanden, noch bevor diese ihren H÷hepunkt erreicht hatte. Diese G & T-Aufnahmen wurden teilweise in den USA unter dem Etikett von Victor ver÷ffentlicht, darunter findet sich eine vollstSndige Aufnahme des +Bajazzo½ (auf 21 Schellackplatten), die 1907 in Anwesenheit des Komponisten Leoncavallo hergestellt wurde.

 



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