1915 MARIA RAPPOLD KARL JOERN Attila EDISON DIAMOND 78

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A series of great EDISON DIAMOND DISC recordings:

Great Marie Rappold, Edisons choice for the jugendlich-dramatisch and hochdramatisches Fach, and famous MET TENOR Karl Joern, who made the famous Berlin G&Ts with Farrar here in

The Flipside is the talented soprano Julia Heinrich, who was run over by a train after an Edison Tone Test perfomance in the South

Condition:

EXCELLENT minus, unworn, lightest rub

Marie Rappold, née Winterroth (1873 – 12 May 1957) was an English-born American operatic soprano.

Rappold was born in London to German parents. She appeared on stage in London at the age of five before moving with her parents to Brooklyn, New York, where she later studied with Oscar Saenger and sang with the Amberg German Opera Company.[1]

Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera was on 22 November 1905 as Sulamith in Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba, 1875) and she continued to appear at the Met until 1920. At the Met, she gave a total of 198 performances in 23 roles and 22 operas. Her first husband, Dr. Julius Rappold, objected to her career, and she divorced him in 1907. In 1913, she married tenor Rudolf Berger (17 April 1874, Moravia – 27 February 1915, New York City).

During World War I, Edison Records started a marketing campaign, hiring prominent opera singers and vaudeville performers to perform alongside and alternating with Edison records of their performances played on top-of-the-line Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs. At various stages during the performances, all lights in the theater would be darkened and the audience challenged to guess whether they were hearing a live performance or a recording. Written accounts of the time often said that much of the audience was astonished when the lights went back up to reveal only the Edison phonograph on stage. According to a book published by the Edison company titled Composers and Artists whose Art is Re-Created by Edison's New Art (ca. 1920), the first such "comparison test" took place at Carnegie Hall on April 28, 1916 with Rappold providing the live vocal performance.

She recorded for Edison and Victor Records, and appeared in short films for Universal Studios. She also appeared in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process in 1922, which is now in the Maurice Zouary film collection at the Library of Congress. In June 1925, Rappold played the female lead in the premiere of the opera The Echo with tenor Forrest Lamont.[citation needed]

She died in 1957 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.

On October 11, 2010, Rappold's home near Lake Michigan was featured on History Channel's series American Pickers.

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1 record: 4$

2 records: 5$

5 records: 6$

10 records: 8$

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Your best bet is the Large Priority box, everything that fits into a 12"x12"x5 1/2" box up to 20 pounds ships for 60$ (35$ Canada) worldwide.

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Germany (is pretty much the same for most countries, incl Japan and Western Europe)

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4 lbs = 35$
20 lbs in 12x12" box 60$

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