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Hi everyone,

Here is a picture of a pamphlet i got from a friend a few months ago. On the front as you can see it is signed Carolina Lazzari. So i assume that its the woman who is pictured...The pamphlet is The Edison Musical Magazine from April 1920. Now this is an era i am not familiar with. I only really know about 1890s-1908. So can anyone tell me about her? I have just be curious as to who she was since I got this.

(Click on the image or this link for a much larger 3480 x 5400 [12 MB] JPEG.)

Thanks,
Aaron

EDIT: Sorry everyone but my picture still wont work ill see what i can do.
MordEth: Aaron’s very high resolution scan is added. I think that the web-upload tool may have a problem with huge images. You are welcome to e-mail them to me (like Aaron did) if you would like to get something online that does not work with forum-provided tool.

Note: You may wish to right-click the image and pick ‘Save Link As...’ from the context menu, rather than trying to view it in your browser. Doing it this way would save it locally on your computer.

Aaron wrote:Hi everyone,

Here is a picture of a pamphlet i got from a friend a few months ago. On the front as you can see it is signed Carolina Lazzari.So i assume that its the woman who is pictured...The pamphlet is The Edison Musical Magazine from April 1920.Now this is an era i am not familiar with. I only really know about 1890s-1908.So can anyone tell me about her? I have just be curious as to who she was since I got this.

Thanks,
Aaron

EDIT: Sorry everyone but my picture still wont work ill see what i can do.

Congrats Aaron...that was post 1000 on the board!

SWEET!!!!!! I was going to try and be the 1000th poster but forgot about it.And now i did it by accident!!!

Aaron

Aaron wrote:EDIT: Sorry everyone but my picture still wont work ill see what i can do.

Aaron,

If you cannot get it to work, e-mail me the photo and I will get it up there for you (and try to troubleshoot why it was not working for you). You should already have gotten a PM from me about it.

Zeppy wrote:Congrats Aaron...that was post 1000 on the board!

Zeppy,

Actually, by my count, Greg Bogantz sniped him.

Sorry Aaron, although I think we have a lot more post milestones to go.

You guys have all been very busy for the first week, and things will only continue to grow from here, I hope.

— MordEth

On the original topic.

Mme Lazzari was born in Milford, Connecticut on December 27, 1891. Accounts on her vocal studies are unknown to me, but she was apparently "discovered" by the conductor Cleofonte Campanini, under whose direction she made her debut at the Chicago Opera (Giglietta in Mascagni's "Isabeau"). She sang one performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera, this being in the role of Amneris (Aida) on December 25, 1920. She appeared as a concert singer as well as with traveling companies, appearing at the Teatro Colon in 1921. Her concert career also ended around this time when she married and mothered three children. She appears to have been semi-active as a voice teacher during her retirement. Mme. Lazzari passed away on October 17, 1946. To my knowledge, her only recordings were made on the Edison label.

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operabass78s wrote:On the original topic. [information] ...this good ?

Thanks for getting that up there; I figured that given time someone would have some information for Aaron (but unfortunately it was not going to be me).

It’s surprising how little I could find out about her from a Google search.

— MordEth

operabass78s wrote:On the original topic.

Mme Lazzari was born in Milford, Connecticut on December 27, 1891. Accounts on her vocal studies are unknown to me, but she was apparently "discovered" by the conductor Cleofonte Campanini, under whose direction she made her debut at the Chicago Opera (Giglietta in Mascagni's "Isabeau"). She sang one performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera, this being in the role of Amneris (Aida) on December 25, 1920. She appeared as a concert singer as well as with traveling companies, appearing at the Teatro Colon in 1921. Her concert career also ended around this time when she married and mothered three children. She appears to have been semi-active as a voice teacher during her retirement. Mme. Lazzari passed away on October 17, 1946. To my knowledge, her only recordings were made on the Edison label.

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Thanks so much!! i was wondering when some body was going to put in some info on the original topic...

Thanks again,
Aaron

Aaron wrote:Thanks so much!! i was wondering when some body was going to put in some info on the original topic...

Sooner or later, someone always knows more than what might be easily found with Google.

...unfortunately, with this subject matter, that person is never me.

We are blessed with quite a few well-informed members who go out of their way to help others, though, thankfully. I think that operabass78s really knows his music, and certainly has been very generous in sharing it with us.

— MordEth

Do I have permission to use this Carolina Lazzari image for a magazine article I'm contracted to write? I am assuming that it is NOT copyrighted (given the date of the magazine), but I would add a photo credit to the image.

milford1 wrote:Do I have permission to use this Carolina Lazzari image for a magazine article I'm contracted to write? I am assuming that it is NOT copyrighted (given the date of the magazine), but I would add a photo credit to the image.

Assuming the 1920 publication date is accurate, it is public domain in the USA, having been published before 1923. Copying a public domain image does not require license or credit, per Corel v. Bridgeman.

Usual disclaimer applies...