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This opera includes some memorable arias, yet to the best of my knowledge no DVD recording of it exists.
If I could only keep one of my many Caruso records it would be the 1906 "M'Appari".

DVD?

ArthurVictrolaVIII wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:18 pm DVD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

epigramophone wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:16 pm This opera includes some memorable arias, yet to the best of my knowledge no DVD recording of it exists.
If I could only keep one of my many Caruso records it would be the 1906 "M'Appari".

I seem to have some records from Martha (Marta ?) - I could only readily find 10 of my HMV DM Series - but there were two there !

Maybe your favourite one will be with the others ?

I must admit I haven't listened to them yet.

M'appari was originally recorded on 11th February 1906 (Matrix C-3100) and issued as G&T 052121 and Victor 88001.
When HMV began issuing their Red labels in double sided form it appeared on DB159.

Caruso re-recorded the aria on 15th April 1917 (Matrix C-3100-2).
Confusingly Victor issued it with the same 88001 catalogue number as the 1906 version. It was not issued in the UK.

When Victor and HMV re-issued some Caruso titles with superimposed electrically recorded orchestral accompaniment the 1917 M'appari was chosen. It was issued in 1932 as HMV DB1802 and Victor 7720.

I still do not understand why this lovely opera set in Tudor England is not available on DVD.

Worth noting, Martha was written to a German libretto; although generally known to us in Italian, "M'appari" then would more properly be "Ach so fromm." (The Wikipedia article about the opera suggest a few complications surround the aria in that regard, but I gather German is the probable candidate.) In my own collection, recordings in Italian overwhelmingly outnumber those in German, but a few in the latter language are present: Peter Muller on Pathé and Andreas Dippel, Benno Haberl, and Jacques Urlus on Edison (2 minute cyl.; wax amberol; and diamond disc, respectively). I actually have more in French, three on Pathé and one each on Victor and Emerson.

Shifting gears, I once puzzled out how the Victor series of Act II "quartet" recordings with Alda, Caruso, Jacoby, and Journet fit together, and here's what I determined: Parts 1-3 are the bulk of scene 1; part 4 is from scene 3.

epigramophone wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:31 am

ArthurVictrolaVIII wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:18 pm DVD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

You have completely lost me.

ArthurVictrolaVIII wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:03 pm

epigramophone wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 4:31 am

ArthurVictrolaVIII wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:18 pm DVD?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

You have completely lost me.

Me too.
https://www.amazon.com/Flotow-Martha-H- ... B0000252D2

Just trying to explain to Arthur what a DVD is.
Your Amazon link shows an audio CD.