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Madame Julia Guiraudon

La Bohème — Les Adieux

Giacomo Puccini

♫ Disque pour Gramophone — G.C.-33614 — 1906 recording ♫

Julia Guiraudon sings Mimì's farewell in French, preserving a role closely associated with her stage career. The soprano sang Mimì in the 1898 Opéra-Comique premiere of La Bohème, giving this 1906 recording a direct connection with the opera's early Parisian performance history.

◆ Details

Artist: Madame Julia Guiraudon.

Title: La Bohème — Les Adieux.

Composer: Giacomo Puccini, credited as Puccini on the label.

Label: Disque pour Gramophone.

Catalogue number: G.C.-33614.

Matrix: 5781o.

Recorded: Paris, 1906.

Genre: Opera.

Style: Lyric soprano aria; historical French operatic singing.

Language: French.

Julia Guiraudon was a French soprano closely associated with the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Following her studies at the Paris Conservatoire, she began her career at the theatre in 1897, appearing in the premiere of Camille Erlanger's Kermaria.

Her connection with La Bohème is especially significant: in 1898 she sang Mimì when Puccini's opera entered the Opéra-Comique repertoire. This recording therefore preserves an artist returning to a part she had helped introduce to Parisian audiences.

In 1899, Guiraudon created the title role in Jules Massenet's Cendrillon. Her career placed her close to the composers and theatrical traditions shaping French opera at the turn of the twentieth century. She later married the librettist Henri Cain, whose work included the text of Cendrillon.

For collectors of historical singing, this disc offers a connection with that operatic world through an interpreter personally associated with the early stage history of the music. The French-language performance also documents the way Puccini's work reached audiences at the Opéra-Comique.

♫ Tracklist

• La Bohème — Les Adieux
  Giacomo Puccini.
  Mimì's farewell, identified in the discography as Les adieux de Mimi.
  Sung in French by Madame Julia Guiraudon.
  Catalogue number: G.C.-33614.
  Matrix: 5781o.

This intimate farewell centres on Mimì's separation from Rodolfo. Its historical interest is enhanced by Guiraudon's own association with the role at the Opéra-Comique, linking the recording to the work's early Parisian reception.

◆ Personnel

• Madame Julia Guiraudon — soprano, singing Mimì's aria.

◇ Technical details

Recording process: Acoustic.

Catalogue number: G.C.-33614.

Matrix: 5781o.

Company: The Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd.

Manufacturing credit: Fabriqué par La Cie The Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd et Sociétés Filiales.

Label heading: DISQUE POUR GRAMOPHONE.

Label identification: FRENCH — SOPRANO.

Location printed on the label: PARIS.

The year 1906 refers to the documented recording date. The manufacturing date of this individual copy has not been established.

◆ Condition

Record condition: VG+++ — visually graded.

Visual condition: Slight surface marks.

Playback: Not confirmed.

Please examine the photograph for the appearance of the label and the visible record surface.

◆ Buy with confidence

• The visual grade and surface marks are clearly described.
• The catalogue number and matrix are identified separately and matched to the documented recording.
• Careful handling and protective packaging specifically designed for fragile shellac records.
• Of particular interest to collectors of Julia Guiraudon, Puccini, the Opéra-Comique and early French operatic recordings.

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