The Complete Olimpia Boronat

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For the first time, the complete and rare recordings of Olimpia Boronat (b. 1867 - d. 1934) have been gathered to create a single CD that brings to light one of the most beautiful coloratura soprano voices on disc.

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Total timing (72:08)

The Complete Olimpia Boronat

Gramophone and Typewriter Company, St. Petersburg, 1904

  1. LA TRAVIATA: Sempre libera (Verdi) [3:05]
    (1769L) 53346 / Transposed down a semi-tone to G

  2. Solovei [The Nightingale] (Alabiev) [3:39]
    (1770L) 23420 / Transposed down a full tone to C minor

  3. Senza l'amore (Tosti) [3:05]
    (1771L) 53347

  4. RIGOLETTO: Caro nome (Verdi) [3:34]
    (1772L) 53348 / Transposed down a semi-tone to E-flat

  5. MIREILLE: O d'amor messaggera (Gounod) [2:37]
    (1773L) 53349

  6. ZABAVA PUTIATISHNA: [Zabava's arioso] (Ivanov) [2:48]
    (1774L) 53350

  7. I PURITANI: O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave (Bellini) [3:34]
    (1775L) 53351

  8. Desiderio (Zardo) [2:27]
    (1776L) 53352

  9. LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES: Siccome un dì caduto il sole (Bizet) [3:36]
    (1777L) 53353

  10. MARTHA: Qui sola, vergin rosa (Flotow) [2:50]
    (1778L) 53354

     Gramophone Company (Pre-dog), Milan, 1908

  11. I PURITANI: O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave (Bellini) [4:07]
    (1505C) , assigned 053282, published only as HMB 20

  12. DON PASQUALE: So anch'io la virtù magica (Donizetti) [4:22]
    (1506HC) 053185

  13. RIGOLETTO: Tutte le feste (Verdi) [3:23]
    (1507C) 053186

  14. MARTHA: Qui sola, vergin rosa (Flotow) [4:17]
    (1515C), assigned 053288, published only as HMB 29

  15. LES HUGUENOTS: O vago suol (Meyerbeer) [4:09]

  16. LES HUGUENOTS: La tennera parola (Meyerbeer) [2:30]
    (1516C) Unpublished, published only as HMB 29
    (1517C) 053187

  17. LA SONNAMBULA: Come per me sereno (Bellini) [4:08]
    (1520HC) 053188

  18. OLGA: E lo sapevi (Giannelli) [3:22]
    (1542C) 053189

  19. Solovei [The Nightingale] (Alabiev) [3:14]
    (1543HC) 023041 / Transposed down a full tone to C minor

  20. Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) [2:51]
    (1544C) 053190

  21. Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) [2:59]
    (1544HC) 053190X
Languages: Italian [1, and 3-18]; Russian [2 and 19] and Latin [20 and 21]
The following selections are re-recorded from copies in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C. Witten II in the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Yale University Library [17, 18 and 20]

Photographs: Girvice Archer and Roger Gross Ltd.

Producer and Audio Conservation: Ward Marston

Booklet Design: Takeshi Takahashi

Marston would like to thank Harry Butler, Victor Girard, and Lawrence F. Holdridge for their help in the production of this CD release.