 | Nellie Melba: The Complete Victor Recordings (1907-1916)
Buy used from: $34.98 A wonderful sampling of the great Melba -- what a peach!
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 | Ponselle Prima Voce
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.99 Ponselle in her prime; there is no greater.
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 | Amelita Galli-Curci: Victor Recordings (1925-28)
Buy used from: $62.50 The finest coloratura of her time.
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 | Conchita Supervia: In Opera And Song
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $11.51 The enchanting Spanish mezzo excels in Rossini, Bizet, de Falla, and others.
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 | Rosa Raisa Complete Recordings
Buy used from: $99.98 Exquisite dramatic soprano singing from the creator of Turnadot.
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 | Mary Garden: The Complete Victor Recordings (1926-1929)
Buy used from: $29.99 Stylish singing from the queen of French opera.
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 | Lucrezia Bori: Arias
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.00 A lyric soprano par excellence.
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 | Kirsten Flagstad: Grieg's Haugtuusa & Complete 1937 Victor Recordings
Buy used from: $18.95 Arguably the greatest Wagnerian soprano who ever lived.
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 | Luisa Tetrazzini: The Complete Zonophone (1904) and Victor Recordings (1911-20)
Buy used from: $27.75 Coloratura con coglioni.
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 | Elizabeth Rethberg (Prima Voce)
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $7.59 Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Donizetti, Wagner -- was there anything this woman couldn't sing?
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 | The Complete Adelina Patti & Victor Maurel
Buy used from: $75.00 The greatest soprano of the 19th century in her rare late recordings.
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 | Emmy Destin
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $24.98 Another one who could seemingly sing it all.
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 | Geraldine Farrar in French Opera
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $4.69 The Met's star soprano during her time there -- as famous for her acting as her singing.
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 | Frances Alda: The Complete Victor Recordings, 1909-15
Buy used from: $49.93 A neglected artist who deserves to be better known -- one of the great Mimis.
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 | Claudia Muzio: The Complete Columbia Recordings (1934-1935)
Buy used from: $69.98 Rivalled Ponselle for beauty of tone and musical commitment.
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 | Lotte Schoene
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $12.98 Schoene was one of the loveliest German lyric-coloraturas ever -- a sadly neglected artist.
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 | Marcella Sembrich: The Victor Recordings
Buy used from: $24.98 The Met's first Lucia -- as accomplished a violinist and pianist as she was a soprano.
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 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink: The Victor Recordings, 1911-20
Buy used from: $117.72 Even Richard Strauss' "Elektra" orchestra couldn't drown out this exceptional contralto -- "Louder," cried Strauss, "I can still hear the Heink!"
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 | Emma Calve: The Complete Victor Recordings (1907-1916)
Buy used from: $19.98 The possessor of a remarkably unusual voice, she was a famous Carmen as well as Ophelie in Thomas' "Hamlet."
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