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Louise Homer can be heard on a number of Mapleson Cylinders
Mediafire link for Mapleson cylinders
(These are zip files – left click the link, download the files, then unzip when downloaded)
As the LP notes, this is not high-fidelity sound. This is IRCC LP7006, issued in 1955, containing transfers of a number of Mapleson Cylinders, recorded live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House from 1901 to 1903.
Homer appears on the following tracks:
7. Wagner - Die Walküre - Herrlichste Maid! (Act 3) Lillian Nordica, soprano; Johanna Gadski, soprano; David Bispham, baritone; Marguerite Marilly, soprano; Camille Seygard, soprano; Marie van Cauteren, soprano; Mathilde Bauermeister, contralto; Carrie Bridewell, contralto; Louise Homer, contralto; Marie Maurer, contralto; Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto. Alfred Hertz, conductor 21/2/1903
15. Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - A ce mot tout s'anime Suzanne Adams, soprano; Louise Homer, contralto. Philippe Flon, conductor 1/3/1902 (Credited on record sleeve as Melba, 11th March 1901, conducted by Flon)
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