Maria Caniglia - 78rpm Set Un Ballo In Maschera - La Voce Del Padrone #DBS 9082

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Maria Caniglia - 78rpm Set - Un Ballo In Maschera - La Voce Del Padrone #DBS 9082

This is a four record set (seven sides) made in Italy

Disco “Grammofono” Made In Italy Depositato a norma di legge - Anno 1943

Un Ballo In Maschera - (Verdi - A. Somma)

soprano MARIA CANIGLIA

orchestra del “Teatra Reale dell 'Opera' - Roma (M.o. Tullio Serafin)

also featuring 

Gino Bechi, (baritone) 

Tancredi Pasero, (basso) 

Giulia Novelli, basso e coro

Beniamino Gigli, (tenore)

Outstandingly beautiful recording!

Here are the disc numbers and matrix numbers and sides

Disc #DBS 9082 This is No. 15 (2BA.5528) single sided disc

Disc #DB 9083 This is No. 16 & 21 (2BA.5529) and 2BA.5516.11

Disc #DB 9084 This is No. 17 & 20 (2BA.5514) and 2BA.5515 *

Disc #DB 9085 This is No. 18 & 19 (2BA.5526) and 2BA.5517 *

No. 15 “Ecco I'orrido campo...” Atto 2.0

No. 16 “Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa”

No. 17 “Teco io sto. Gran Dio!”

No. 18 “M'ami, m'ami!”

No. 19 “Ahime! Taci s'appressa alcun”

No. 20 “Seguitemi” (Mio Dio)

No. 21 “Ve'se di notte qui colla sposa” (Fin. A. 2.0)

DISC CONDITIONS: Over all E+ super clean records * these

have factory flaws in the way of small pimples nothing that didn't

track fine. I played the entire work, all sides, and despite the sides

with factory flaws, the recording quality and artists performances

over shadowed the few flaws, which sounded like nothing more than

a low pop or click for a few rotations, again nothing serious.

The four 12 inch records did not come with an album cover or

original sleeves. The matrix is set up for automatic changers.

rare beautiful pressings.

A WORD ABOUT WORLD WIDE SHIPPING;

The four records alone weighs in at 3 pounds, with a large box of 14x14x7

add another 2 pounds so overseas buyers expect to pay about $45.00 maybe

a slight bit more. various by country and weight of the packaged discs.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS & THE WORK

Maria Caniglia (5 May 1905 – 16 April 1979) was one of the leading Italian dramatic sopranos of the 1930s and 1940s Caniglia was born in Naples and studied at the Music Conservatories of Naples with Agostino Roche. She made her professional debut in Turin as Chrysothemis in Elektra in 1930. The same year she sang Magda in Respighi's La campana sommersa in Genoa and Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin in Rome and made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Maria in Pizzetti's Lo straniero. She sang regularly at La Scala until 1951 in the leading dramatic soprano roles in opera, such as Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Aida, Andrea Chénier, Tosca and Adriana Lecouvreur. She was particularly successful in roles from the latter verismo school.

Gino Bechi (16 October 1913 – 2 February 1993) was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially in Verdi roles

Tancredi Pasero (11 January 1893, Turin - 17 February 1983, Milan) was an Italian bass who enjoyed a long and distinguished singing career in his native country and abroad.

Giulia Novelli (1859-1932) was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano. She was married to the famous Spanish dramatic tenor Francisco Viñas (1863-1933)

Beniamino Gigli (pronounced [benja?mi?no ?d?i??i]; March 20, 1890 – November 30, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music.

Tullio Serafin (1 September 1878 – 2 February 1968) was an Italian conductor. Tullio Serafin was a leading Italian opera conductor with a long career and a very broad repertoire who revived many 19th-century bel canto operas by Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti to become staples of 20th-century repertoire. He had an unparalleled reputation as a coach of young opera singers and famously harnessed and developed Maria Callas's considerable talents.

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat Costanzi Theatre, it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements. The present house seats 1,600.

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. However, Somma's libretto was itself based on the five act libretto which playwright Eugène Scribe had written for Daniel Auber's 1833 opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué. Scribe wrote about the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was killed as the result of a political conspiracy against him. He was shot while attending a masked ballroom dance and died 13 days later of his wounds. It was to take over two years between the time of the commission from Naples and planned for a production there and its premiere performance at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17 February 1859. In order to become the Un ballo in maschera which we know today, Verdi's opera (and his libretto) was forced to undergo a significant series of transformations and title changes. Based on the Scribe libretto and begun as Gustavo III set in Sweden, it became Una vendetta in dominò set in Germany, and finally Un ballo, set not in Sweden but in Boston, Massachusetts during the colonial era. These changes were caused by a combination of censorship regulations in both Naples and Rome, as well as by the political situation in France in January 1858. It became one of the most frustrating experiences of Verdi's career.

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