1931 RCA PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTIONS 33 RPM BIZET CARMEN OPERA COMIQUE COPPOLA LM 128

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Ultra rare 1931 issue of the 1928 first electric recording of CARMEN

 on 7 RCA PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTION 33 RPM set LM-128

In 1931, RCA Victor tried to introduce a long playing disc. They recorded music at 33-1/3 rpm on a standard 10 or 12 inch shellac disc — or more often an early plastic material called "Victrolac" which seemed to be softer and wore out more quickly than shellac. The grooves on the record were the same as those used on 78 RPM discs, not the microgrooves used by Columbia when they introduced their 33-1/3 disc on vinyl in 1948. This was a short lived experiment because at the height of the depression few people could afford the very expensive machines needed to play the Program Transcription discs. Also, the discs had poor fidelity and the heavy tone arms of that period wore the discs out quickly. The records were produced from 1931 to 1933, but some discs were kept in the RCA catalog until 1939.

CARMEN - a fitting tribute to this popular opera, recorded by the soloists and chorus of the Paris

OPERA COMIQUE - the place where Bizet premiered it in  on 3 March 1875

The great HMV conductor Piero Coppola and the stars of the COMIQUE

Performer: Lucy Perelli, José de Trévi, Louis Musy, Yvonne Brothier
Orchestra: OPERA COMIQUE Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Piero Coppola

Here is a review of this recording upon it's US release:

complete on 7 RCA PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTIONs 33 RPM Victrolac Records (Vinyl pressings) set LM-128 in orthophonic style album with patterned sleeves

Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS PLUS, undamaged, occ light grey groove. Records are very dirty with a fatty haze that will clean up fine with some soap

Album is dusty, gold on front and spine very dark, corners rubbed through

A RARE SET IN INCREDIBLE CONDITION

Giorgini, Aristodemo, Tenor, * 1879 (nach anderen Quellen 1881) Neapel, † 19.1.1937 Neapel; Studium an der Accademia di Santa Cecilia Rom. 1903 erfolgloses Bühnendebüt, darauf erneutes Studium bei Massimo Perilli in Neapel. Bereits 1904 erschienen seine ersten Schallplatten. 1905 abermaliges Debüt an der Mailänder Scala als Ernesto in »Don Pasquale«. Anschließend kam er zu einer bedeutenden Karriere an den führenden italienischen Theatern; 1910 großer Erfolg an der Scala als Elvino in »La Sonnambula« von Bellini als Partner von Rosina Storchio. Sehr schnell kam eine Gastspielkarriere auf internationalem Niveau zustande. So sang er bereits 1905 an der Londoner Covent Garden Oper den Herzog im »Rigoletto« und den Rodolfo in »La Bohème«. 1907 gastierte er am Teatro Regio Parma als Amico Fritz in der Oper gleichen Namens von Mascagni und sang diese Partie wie den Rodolfo in der Saison 1908-09 am Teatro Massimo Palermo. 1907 war er am Teatro Politeama Buenos Aires, 1910 an der Oper von Monte Carlo zu Gast, wo er den Elvino in Bellinis »La Sonnambula« und den Grafen Almaviva im »Barbier von Sevilla« sang. Er trat an allen führenden italienischen Opernhäusern auf, in Genua, Neapel, Florenz und Triest und sang an der Scala 1913 bei den Verdi-Gedenkfeiern das Tenor-Solo im Requiem dieses Meisters. Erfolgreiche Gastspiele auch an der Covent Garden Oper London, am Teatro Liceo von Barcelona, am Teatro Real in Madrid, am Teatro San Carlos Lissabon, an der Oper von Warschau und an russischen Bühnen. 1912-14 war er an der Oper von Chicago engagiert, wo man ihn als Don Ottavio im »Don Giovanni« und in vielen Partien für lyrischen Tenor aus dem italienischen Repertoire hörte. 1920 sang er am Teatro Dal Verme in Mailand den Faust in »Mefistofele« von Boito, 1923 Konzert-Tournee durch Belgien und Holland. 1921 war er nochmals als Gast an der Wiener Staatsoper zu hören. Er trat bis 1930 auf und lebte dann als Pädagoge in Neapel. - Ausdrucksvolle lyrische Tenorstimme, vor allem im italienischen Repertoire beheimatet.

Schallplatten: Nach seinen frühen Aufnahmen auf G & T (Mailand, 1904-08) kamen Edison-Zylinder (um 1910), Pathé-Platten und Aufnahmen auf HMV (u.a. vollständige Oper »La Bohème« von 1928 und schöne neapolitanische Lieder) heraus.

[Nachtrag] Giorgini, Aristodemo; 1906 gab er ein Gastspiel an der Hofoper von St. Petersburg; 1921 (nicht 1929) trat er an der Wiener Staatsoper auf.

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