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Faust Waltz Mapleson Cylinder 1903 live MET

ecstatic rather than bombastic... the Phantoms of the old Metropolitan singing and dancing... Ainsi que la brise légère from Faust (Charles Gounod) / recorded during a February 14, 1903 performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York by Met Librarian Lionel Mapleson / conducted by Luigi Mancinelli. MAPLESON's recordings are by far the earliest examples of live opera performances surviving in sound so he is considered by many to be the 'father of the pirates'... Lionel Mapleson was the Metropolitan Opera's librarian from the 1890s until he died in 1937. Between the years 1900 and 1904 he had permission from the Metropolitan Opera to place, in the prompter's box and later on a catwalk 40 feet above the stage, a cylinder phonograph with which he recorded portions of Met performances. Only a number of the cylinders he made have come down to us today; in fact, the ones that do survive were generally considered to be the 'failures' in terms of technical quality. The best ones he took to London in the summers; they may still be floating around somewhere and it is to be hoped that at least some of them may resurface one day... "The Mapleson Cylinders are a group of more than 100 phonograph cylinders recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera, primarily in the years 1901-1903, by the Met librarian Lionel Mapleson (a nephew of impresario James Henry Mapleson). The cylinders contain short fragments of actual operatic performances from the Italian, German and French repertoires. Despite their variable quality of sound (some are quite good while others are nearly inaudible), the cylinders have great historical value thanks to the unique aural picture they document of pre-World War I singers in performance at an opera house with a full orchestra. Other contemporary recordings only capture singers as recorded with piano or a tiny orchestra in a boxy commercial recording studio. The Mapleson cylinders also feature the only recordings known to exist of a number of famous singers and conductors who were never recorded commercially. They include Jean de Reszke, Milka Trnina and Luigi Mancinelli." From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapleson... ------------------------------------- Luigi MANCINELLI (born Orvieto, February 5, 1848 -- died Rome, February 2, 1921) was a leading Italian orchestral conductor, active especially in Bologna, Rome, Madrid, London, New York and Buenos Aires. Mancinelli was on the conductors' roster of the New York Metropolitan Opera for 10 years, ending in 1903. In that capacity he conducted 531 performances of a variety of mainstream operas by Italian, French and German composers. He wrote a number of operas as well, and also composed orchestral music and even some film music. Examples of his artistry as a conductor can be heard on the Mapleson Cylinders. One of the clearest of these primitive-sounding cylinders consists of this brief extract from Gounod's Faust. ------------------------------------- Ernani Mapleson Cylinder 1903 live MET: O sommo Carlo:    • Ernani Mapleson Cylinder 1903 live MET   ------------------------------------- FAUST. Act 2. At the city gates. Méphistophélès is joined by Faust and the villagers in a waltz (Ainsi que la brise légère). Marguerite appears and Faust declares his admiration, but she refuses Faust's arm out of modesty. Gounod's Faust was so popular in the United States that in New York the opera season began with a performance of it every year for several decades in the late nineteenth century. A performance of the opera is part of the story of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera and features in some film adaptations including the 1925 version. In The Adventures of Tintin, Tintin often encounters a bombastic opera singer called Bianca Castafiore, of a more than passing resemblance to a later (1882) eminent Marguerite, Emma Calvé. Her trademark is the jewel song, which she always sings at high volume, never saying more than Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir or a few words more from other lines...