Opera Recordings

Opera Recordings This article is in two parts: 1. Single numbers; 2. Complete sets. Shortlived label of the early ’20s. Courtesy Kurt Nauck/Nauck’s Vintage Records 1. Single Numbers. Before 1900 the cylinder manufacturers took three approaches to operatic material. They offered instrumental selections (overtures and arrangements of the vocal numbers), arias translated into English, and (occasionally) arias in their original languages. In most cases truncations were required to fit the numbers…