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A series of great OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Claudia Muzio in her greatest Edison recording: Two ladies in distress:
Maddalena's story from Andrea Chenier, how the revolutionary mob killed her mother, and a faithful servant rescued her as a child.
From Eugene Onegin Tatiana's great Letter scene Sei forse l'angelo fedele where Tatiana declares her love to the wastrel Onegin
Improved 1921 Ring Label pressing
| Rec Numb | 82224-R | 82224-L |
| Take | C | B |
| Title | EVGENI ONEGIN Tchaikovsky Konstantin Shilovskij): Sei forse l'angelo fedele | ANDREA CHÉNIER (Umberto Giordano / Luigi Illica), IIId: Racconto (Maddalena) "La mamma morta" |
| Artist | Claudia Muzio (S), (O) | Claudia Muzio (S), (O) |
| Recorded | 1920.11.03 | 1920.11.08 |
| Place | NYC | NYC |
| Comment | acoustic | acoustic |
CONDITION: EXCELLENT but light rubs on -R, plays EXCEPTIONALLY quiet with great volume
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The tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi wrote of Muzio “singing with that unique voice of hers made of tears and sighs and restrained interior fire.” The best years around 1930 were probably her best precisely the years in which she did not record! Between 1924 and 1934 there is a ten-year gap. The missing period would seem to be the very one in which her interpretations had matured while her voice was still in prime condition. The early records may lack the intensity and creativeness of her later recordings and in the famous Columbias one is aware of some physical limitations (uneasy high notes flatness mannerisms in style and enunciation vowels!) but there is a pathos an inner committment and charm in her singing that is immensely moving and touching. Only a few sopranos equalled her in this aspect of emotional involvement.
Unfortunately because of personell politics she never had a big career at the Met but excelled in Chicago and San Francisco. That in part prevented her from a major recording career.
We are fortunately enough that someone put her performance of Act I Tosca at the 1932 opening of the new built SF opera house on disc. Other than that precious little has Muzio recorded: There are a smattering of early Pathes some great 1920 Edisons (on auction now) then nothing for a long time and then a year before her death about 20 sides recorded in Rome (in auction now).
Unbelievable as it is Muzio did not record after 1920 and only a year before her death in 1934/35 did she record a few electric sides in Rome.
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