I just found a wonderful article about full recordings of operas! This should help me in my search for decent materials to listen to. But these are only commercial recordings, so I will need to look elsewhere for radio ones as well as recordings that were preserved by listeners. At any rate, I was surprised by how many singers' names I recognised, all from the 1940's and earlier, of course. But there were still a good number that I didn't know and must, therefore, research. I was also surprised that Enrico Caruso appears not to have made any full-length recordings, or even large sections of a single opera. Also, Dino Borgioli wasn't mentioned, and I know he made at least two sets, that, while weren't complete, were extensive.
Taylor & FrancisOPERA RECORDINGS | 582 | Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound | Taylor & FraJohnson label were Marie Romaine, interpreting “Then You’ll Remember Me” from
Bohemian Girl (2 July 1900), and Rosalia Chalia, who sang three arias on 30 Oct
![Colour photo: Ernest Dawson (Firm): “His Master’s Voice” the world’s best gramophone! Recital, Concert Chamber, Town Hall, Wednesday, April 21st, 1926, at eight o’clock, demonstrating the wonderful new instrument. 1926. Description: Folded programme whose front shows the logo of His Master’s Voice at the centre top and the Ernest Dawson logo at the bottom. The “concert” featured performances by Dinh Gilly, Caruso, Cortot, Martinelli and De Luca, Pupils of Miss Nesta Sarwell-Cooke, Phyllis Lett, Mr J. A. Duffy, Light Opera Company, Members of the YMCA Gymnasium, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Galli Curci, Kreisler, Apollo Male Chorus, Chaliapine, John McCormack, Royal Choral Society. Citation: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of octavo size relating to sound recording and the recording industry, records and gramophone equipment, mainly in New Zealand in the 1920s].. Ref: Eph-A-PHONO-1926-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22675495](https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/105/719/219/196/233/original/034d691bf50b61e7.jpg "Colour photo: Ernest Dawson (Firm): “His Master’s Voice” the world’s best gramophone! Recital, Concert Chamber, Town Hall, Wednesday, April 21st, 1926, at eight o’clock, demonstrating the wonderful new instrument. 1926. Description: Folded programme whose front shows the logo of His Master’s Voice at the centre top and the Ernest Dawson logo at the bottom. The “concert” featured performances by Dinh Gilly, Caruso, Cortot, Martinelli and De Luca, Pupils of Miss Nesta Sarwell-Cooke, Phyllis Lett, Mr J. A. Duffy, Light Opera Company, Members of the YMCA Gymnasium, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Galli Curci, Kreisler, Apollo Male Chorus, Chaliapine, John McCormack, Royal Choral Society. Citation: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of octavo size relating to sound recording and the recording industry, records and gramophone equipment, mainly in New Zealand in the 1920s].. Ref: Eph-A-PHONO-1926-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22675495")
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