1905 EMMA EAMES Paolo FIRST TAKE Tosti GOOD BYE Addio w PIANO VICTOR 88009 78

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A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records:

EMMA EAMES - the voice of the century. If I had to pick a single singer for beauty of voice and technical perfection, EAMES would be it: Pupil of the great MATHILDA MARCHESI, who never turned out a less-than spectacular singer.

Of ravishing beauty:Paolo Tosti GOOD BYE

Good-bye

G. J. Whyte-Melville (lyricist) 
F. Paolo Tosti (composer) 
 Emma Eames (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Description: Soprano vocal solo, with piano

3/16/1905 New York, New York

This is the first take, not the 1911 remake

Original issue GRAND PRIZE 12" 78 rpm record

Condition:

EXCELLENT faint scuffs matrix hiss in master, plays very very quiet w a 5.0 mil stylus

A CHOICE  COPY

Emma Eames (August 13, 1865 - June 13, 1952) was an opera soprano.

The daughter of an international courts lawyer, she was born in Shanghai, China. Attending school in Boston, she studied with the famous teacher Mathilde Marchesi, although she would later downplay Marchesi's influence on her voice. She was eventually called upon to play the heroine in Rom?o et Juliette at the Paris Op?ra. Debuting in 1889, she would play the role many other times in the next two years, finally leaving in 1891 for personal reasons.

The same year, she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York playing the same role. New York was where she would have the most acclaim, performing in operas until retiring in 1909. She also made appearances at the Royal Opera House in London. She spent her free time touring in concerts around the United States after her retirement from the Met, until finally removing herself from the business entirely in 1916.

In 1929 Eames wrote an autobiography, Some Memories and Reflections.

Eames was reportedly unhappy with the way she sounded on her records, although in 1939 she went on a radio show and picked out some her most famous records, and she spoke immodestly about them. Eames can also be heard in the Mapleson Cylinders.

Eames had a wide repertoire, including Aida, Lohengrin, Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, Le Nozze di Figaro, Faust, and Don Giovanni.

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She was married twice, first to the painter Julian Story, and then to the famous baritone Emilio di Gigorza, with whom she made some records. She was raised in Portland and Bath, Maine. Both marriages ended in divorce and much bitterness. She had no children, but in her autobiography admitted that she was pressured into a "medical procedure".

She relocated to New York in 1936, where she became a renowned vocal instructor. In New York she was fond of attending Broadway shows. Eames died in 1952 at the age of 86. Emma Eames is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath, Maine.

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