Nellie Melba, farewell 1926
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Nellie Melba, farewell 1926
Eklipse, c1992
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Farewell appearance of Dame Nellie Melba in opera at Covent Garden : Tuesday, June 8th, 1926
Covent Garden farewell performance, June 8, 1926
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Chiefly for voices and acc
Chiefly sung in Italian
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Nellie Melba (1st-8th and 10th-20th works), Jane Bourguignon (1st), Browning Mummery (3rd, 5th-6th and 8th), Aurora Rettore (5th-6th), John Brownlee (5th-6th), Frederic Collier (5th-6th), Edouard Cotreuil (5th-6th), Lord Stanley (9th), voices ; Vincenzo Bellezza, conductor (1st-8th) ; other players
Recorded: Covent Garden, June 8, 1926 (1st-10th works); March 1901, at the MET in New York (11th-20th) (live recording)
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Eklipse: EKR CD4
Contents of Works
- Otello. Act IV. Piangea cantando, salce, salce (Desdemona, Emilia) / Verdi
- Ave maria piena di grazia (Desdemona) / Verdi
- La boheme. Act III. Entrate--C'e Rodolfo? (Mimi, Rodolfo) / Puccini
- Donde lieta usci (Mimi) / Puccini
- Addio dolce svegliare (all) / Puccini
- Act IV. Gavotta (all) / Puccini
- Sono andati? (Mimi) / Puccini
- O, come e bello e morbido (Mimmi [i.e. Mimi], Rodolfo) / Puccini
- Speeches. Lord Stanley
- Melba farewell speech
- Bonus. Mapleson cylinders. Les Huguenots. A ce mot tout s'anime / [Meyerbeer]
- Faust. Air des bijoux / [Gounod]
- Trio finale / [Gounod]
- Traviata. Un di felice / [Verdi]
- Lucia di Lammermoor. Mad scene fragment / [Donizetti]
- Distance test : fragments mad scene from Hamlet by Thomas
- La traviata. Dite alla giovine / [Verdi]
- "Un ange est venu" / Bemberg
- "Clair de lune" / Szulc
- "Swing low sweet chariot"