Enrico Caruso & Rosa Ponselle: 1909-1924 AIDA Act IV "Tomb Scene" in AI

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Ponselle faulted her manager, William Thorner, for contracting with the Columbia Graphophone Company rather than the more prestigious Victor company, where she could have recorded the Tomb Scene with Caruso. When she did record it for Victor, Giovanni Martinelli was her Radames, Caruso having died three years earlier. She disliked the master recordings and refused to allow them to be released. When she and Martinelli recorded the Tomb Scene electrically on four ten-inch master discs in May 1926, she again refused to have them released because she felt that the volume between her voice and Martinelli's was imbalanced. The ever-persuasive Martinelli talked her into letting them be released, and the discs were lauded by every record reviewer of that era.