7 X 78 ALBUM - ENRICO CARUSO - OPERA , ITALIAN - 10"

$

40

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this auction is for the following item :

size 10 "  ,78 RPM  7 RECORDS IN A 8 POCKETS ALBUM.

made in:  YEAR : 1900'S -1920'S

MADE IN   :ENGLAND / GERMANY

Label : SEE BELOW

CAT.  NO. :SEE BELOW

ARTIST(s):

ENRICO CARUSO

During his singing career, Enrico Caruso made more than 260 recordings over an 18-year period and earned millions of dollars from the sale of the resulting 78 rpm discs. These discs, recorded in 1902-1920, chart the development of Caruso's voice from that of a lyric tenor, to that of a spinto tenor, to that of a fully-fledged dramatic tenor.

While Caruso sang at many of the world's great opera houses, including La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, he is best known for being the leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 17 years. Arturo Toscanini, who conducted Caruso at the Met, considered him one of the finest artists with whom he had worked. Caruso's technique and style combined the best aspects of elegant, technically-polished 19th Century tenor singing with the emotionally-charged delivery and exciting, thrusting timbre demanded by the Verismo composers of the early 20th Century.

Caruso was baptized in the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo on February 26, 1873, having been born in Naples, Italy, one day earlier. He began his career in Naples in 1894. The first major role that he created was Loris in Giordano's Fedora, at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, on November 17, 1898. At that same theater, on November 6, 1902, he created the role of Maurizio in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.

In 1903, with the help of his agent, the banker Pasquale Simonelli, he went to New York City, and, on November 23 of that year, he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera as the Duke of Mantua in a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto. The following year Caruso began his lifelong association with the Victor Talking-Machine Company; his star relationships with both the Metropolitan and Victor would last until 1920. Caruso himself commissioned Tiffany & Co. to produce a 24 carat gold medal with his profile, as a memento (PER RICORDO) for his friends of his Metropolitan performances.

In April 1906, Caruso and members of the Metropolitan Opera Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Tivoli Opera House. The night after Caruso's performance in Carmen, the tenor was awakened in the early morning in his Palace Hotel suite by a strong jolt. San Francisco had been hit by a major earthquake, which led to a series of fires that eventually destroyed most of the city. The Metropolitan lost all of the sets and costumes it had brought. Clutching an autographed photo of President Theodore Roosevelt, Caruso made an effort to get out of the city, first by boat and then by train, and vowed never to return to San Francisco; he kept his word.[2]

On November 16, 1906, Caruso was charged with an indecent act committed in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. He was said to have pinched the bottom of a woman described as "pretty and plump", causing outrage amongst New York high society. Caruso claimed a monkey pinched the lady's bottom. Caruso was eventually found guilty before appeal, and fined 10 dollars. Later it came out that the woman was friends with the cop who arrested him and that the whole thing was a setup.[citation needed]

On December 10, 1910, he starred at the Met as Dick Johnson in the world premiere of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.

In 1917, he was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

In 1918 Caruso married Dorothy Park Benjamin, who was then aged 25, the daughter of an old-established New York family. They had one daughter, Gloria. Dorothy published two books about Caruso, one in 1928, the other in 1945, which includes many of his letters to her.

In September 1920, Caruso recorded several discs in Victor's Trinity Church studio, including sacred music by Rossini; these recordings were his very last. On December 11, 1920, during the performance of L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti, he suffered a hemorrhage; after act I of the opera, the audience was dismissed. Following this incident, he gave only three more performances at the Met, the last being Eléazar in Halévy's La Juive, on December 24, 1920.

Caruso died in 1921 in Naples, at age 48. The cause of death was likely peritonitis, due to the bursting of an abscess. For some years his embalmed body was preserved in a glass sarcophagus for his fans to see.[3] Later he was moved to an elaborate private tomb at Naples

TITLES:

GRAMMOPHONE 2-52480 - IL TROVATORE - VERDI ( ONE SIDED )

HMV DA 117 - COME UN BEL DID DI MAGGIO/ O LOLA , BIANCA COME FIOR DI SPINO

VICTROLA 87305 - VIENI SUL MAR ( ONE SIDED)

GRAMOLA DA 102 - QUESTA O QUELLA PER ME PARI SONO  / DI TU SE FEDELE IL PLUTTO M'ASPETTA

ELECTROLA DA 1303 - O SOLE MIO  / ACH , WIE SO TRUGERISCH

HMV DA 112 - E LUCEVAN LE STELLE / RECONDITA ARMONIA

GRAMMOPHON  GERMANY 7-52003 - CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

ALL RECORDS COME IN A VERY NICE  STORAGE ALBUM , WITH 8 POCKETS , IN VERY GOOD CONDITION . ( SEE PICTURE 3 )

descreption :   

cover condition :ALBUM IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.

record condition :  ALL RECORDS   IN  VG + TO NEAR MINT CONDITION.

 SOME LIGHT SCRATCHES ON SOME OF THEM

 ALL PLAY VERY GOOD .

shipping to anywhere in the world is 25.00 $

special note to our U.S. bidders:

ebay created a rule in october 2008 , that shipping of a record can not exceed 4.00 $ , from anywhere in the world to the U.S.A.

this rule is impossible for us  to follow , as we ship from israel , with special shipping materials to protect your 78 records won , and actuall air-mail shipping of one record from israel to the u.s. is 7.00-8.00 $.

so , please note , that even it might look in the shipping coloum that shipping price is 4.00 $ , actuall price is what appears in the sale page ( normally 10.00 U.S. $ per 1 record)

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