Rare 78 RPM Concert Grand 5309 Berliner Gramophone of Canada SUZANNE ADAMS

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Madam SUZANNE ADAMS

Waltz from "Romeo and Juliette" (Gounod) 

BERLINER CONCERT GRAND No. 5309

IMPROVED GRAM-O-PHONE RECORD Manufactured by E. Berliner Montreal Canada

Condition:   V- : "Plays through OK with typical Berliner surface noise and one light repeat or jump- being sold as a collector piece, not as a top condition record to play..

                        Biography from Wikipedia

Suzanne Adams (28 November 1872 – 5 February 1953[1]) was an American lyric coloratura soprano. Known for her agile and pure voice, Adams first became well known in France before establishing herself as one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading sopranos at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Adams was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She studied in New York with Jacques Bouhy and then in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi. She made her opera début at the Paris Opéra in 1894 or 1895 as Juliette in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.[2] She studied the role of Juliet and the role of Marguerite from Faust with Gounod himself, who greatly admired her fine technique, brilliant tone, and vocal flexibility.

She remained at the Paris Opera for three years and then went to Nice. While in France she sang numeroues roles by Gounod and Meyerbeer, as well as the Queen of the Night in the The Magic Flute and the title role in Gluck's Eurydice among other roles. In the summer of 1898 she appeared at Covent Garden, London as Hero in the world premiere of C. V. Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing. She went on to join the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she sang numerous roles during the seasons of 1898–99 to 1903. Her roles at the Met included Juliette, Marguerite, Marguerite de Valois from Les Huguenots, Micaela from Carmen, Cherubino from Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, Philine from Mignon, Berthe from Le prophète, the Forest Bird from Siegfried, Nedda from Pagliacci, Gilda from Rigoletto, Infanta from Le Cid, Inès from L'Africaine, and Mimì from La bohème among others.

In 1898 she married Leo Stern, an English cellist who died in 1904. Following Stern's death, Adams soon retired from the stage and settled in London. 

Great sound quality- For 1903, record plays loud and clear with typical Berliner surface noise

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