1911 ETCHED Pathe Complete CARMEN Side 35/36 François Ruhlmann 78

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The first of the great Pathe Opera recordings

 Pathe Complete CARMEN conducted by François Ruhlmann

Carmen

Opéra-Comique Version Recorded in 1911
Featuring Marguerite Mérentié

Opera in four acts
Recorded in fifty-four parts

Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée

Don José Agustarello Affre
Escamillo Henri Albers
Le Dancaïre Hippolyte Belhomme
Le Remendado Paul Dumontier
Zuniga Pierre Dupré
Moralès Mr Dulac
Carmen Marguerite Mérentié
Micaëla Aline Vallandri
Frasquita Marie Gantéri
Mercédès Jeanne Billa-Azéma
François Ruhlmann, conductor
OPÉRA-COMIQUE, chorus and orchestra

Minimal Label information on this Etched label inside out record. The starting arrow may have helped Disc Jockeys that played the set on the special Pathe two turntable Pathephone

SIDE 35/36 opening of Act III

Condition: EXCELLENT faint scufs,  plays very quiet w light hiss

 Sleeve tattered

From Marston.com

THE PATHÉ OPERA SERIES

The French Pathé Company undertook the prodigious task of recording a series of eleven complete operas and two complete plays in French, which was collectively entitled “Le théätre chez soi” (Your Theater at Home). The enterprise began in 1911 and by the end of 1913 nine operas and two plays were on disc. In 1922 and 1923 two additional operas were added to complete the collection. Although the Pathé opera project turned out to be a commercial failure, it is impossible to overestimate the historic and musical significance of the Pathé series. These recordings transport us back to an era when the lost art of French singing still flourished in Paris.

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