1917 CLAUDIA MUZIO PATHE TOSCA Vissi D Arte/ Trovatore D Amore Sull Alii rosee78

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I am currently selling a series of great Richard Wagner and classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

Claudia Muzio in one of her greatest early PATHE RECORDINGS, here issued on lateral disc on the PERFECT record label

 TOSCA Vissi D Arte/ Trovatore D Amore Sull Alii rosee

10" record

CONDITION: ECXELLENT rare scuffs, plays very quietPlays E very quiet

How can one even try to put into words the phenomenon of Claudia Muzio.

The greatest singer-actress of her time (think about Callas without the histrionics and a much better voice)

The best evidence is when you read from other singers of her time: there are always singers and then there is MUZIO on a godess-like pedestal. Singers and audience alike always went gaga over her passionate impersonations of the famous opera heroins.

To present a quote from my favorite website - cantabile-subito.de where you will also find soundfiles:

The tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi wrote of Muzio “singing with that unique voice of hers made of tears and sighs and restrained interior fire.” The best years around 1930 were probably her best precisely the years in which she did not record! Between 1924 and 1934 there is a ten-year gap. The missing period would seem to be the very one in which her interpretations had matured while her voice was still in prime condition. The early records may lack the intensity and creativeness of her later recordings and in the famous Columbias one is aware of some physical limitations (uneasy high notes flatness mannerisms in style and enunciation vowels!) but there is a pathos an inner committment and charm in her singing that is immensely moving and touching. Only a few sopranos equalled her in this aspect of emotional involvement.

To learn more about Muzio read the delightful accounts of Muzio's companion May Higgings in Following a Star (opens a pdf file)

http://www.mrichter.com/opera/files/follstar.pdf#search='Claudia%20Muzio%20Higgins'

Unfortunately because of personell politics she never had a big career at the Met but excelled in Chicago and San Francisco. That in part prevented her from a major recording career.

We are fortunately enough that someone put her performance of Act I Tosca at the 1932 opening of the new built SF opera house on disc. Other than that precious little has Muzio recorded: There are a smattering of early Pathes some great 1920 Edisons (on auction now) then nothing for a long time and then a year before her death about 20 sides recorded in Rome (in auction now).

Unbelievable as it is Muzio did not record after 1920 and only a year before her death in 1934/35 did she record a few electric sides in Rome.

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