Tosca, E lucevan le stelle

About this film

The Cylinder Archive [ www.cylinder.de ] release for February 2011, dedicated to my grandmother who very much appreciated opera: In 1903, Enrico Caruso recorded a small set of commercial recordings on phonograph cylinder, taken by the Anglo-Italian Commerce Company in Milan, Italy. This was just before he signed an exclusive contract with the Victor Company and these recordings were the only ever issued Enrico Caruso recordings on phonograph cylinder in his lifetime. In that very same year, the French Pathé Company took over the AICC and by that also obtained Caruso's cylinder masters which were released on Pathé's two different cylinder formats (standard and intermediate) and on vertical cut discs. Three titles are known by today to have been issued. The original cylinder was first electrically played with the modern stand-alone PHR (Passive High-Rise) cylinder playback system, formerly known as ePUCK, at precise tracking and accurate speed. No old phonograph with certain flaws was used in this process to achieve the best possible playback quality, pitched at 156rpm. Digital filtering has been applied according to most careful standards for reducing background noise and clicks, wh…

Directors & creators

Enrico Caruso

Subjects

cylinder record; caruso; opera; tosca; aria; grand opera; italian; tenor; belcanto

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