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O soave fanciulla

"O soave fanciulla" from Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, sung by Enrico Caruso and Nellie Melba in 1907.

Two of the biggest names in turn-of-the century opera sing a song from the opera by Giacomo Puccini they helped make the smash hit it has remained to this day. Everything about this is top importance to opera. The singers are the biggest starts of their day, Puccini is arguably the most popular opera composer of all time, and... well, La bohème. The only minor flaw is that Caruso seems to have been hogging the recording horn, making Melba sound a bit weaker.

Extraction of the piece from its context in the opera seems to have involved the removal of a short counterpoint phrase for Mimi (a repeat of the end of the previous song) near the beginning, otherwise, I believe this is complete.

Anyway, I'm going to bed now. I don't think there'll be any significant problems. I haven't found a score yet, but if I don't find one before it closes, I'll grab a transcription of the lyrics instead.

Nominate and support. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:38, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Correction needed: As I wrote to you on 4 September: This is famous. It was recorded in New York on 24 March 1907 (Victor C4326 95200 [1]). I can't support this nominations unless the documentation is corrected. It discredits the encyclopedia to publish wrong information. (Of course if you don't think it's C4326 95200 please say so and give the right matrix number.) (BTW this is so famous I hardly think a score/text is necessary.) --Klein zach 07:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Corrected. Sorry about that, I clearly missed an e-mail or message. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:04, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Klein zach 09:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support now that its corrected. --Banime (talk) 21:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - good sound quality, great documentary value, priceless improving of Caruso's article Vejvančický (talk) 08:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Enrico Caruso - Nellie Melba - La bohème - O soave fanciulla (restored).ogg. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:46, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]