Скачать или смотреть 1914. Ninon Vallin Pardo sings Puccini- La Boheme-'On m'appelle Mimi' on early Fr Gramophone Lable

Mme Ninon Vallin was 28 years old and had signed with L'Opera Comique when she recorded this with L'orc de Paris in 1914 (one hundred and eleven years ago). If you look closely at the label pictured here, you will see that she recorded it using both her maiden name and married name "Pardo." On many (but not all) of her Pathé recordings in the teens she used both names. The only full biography written about her (so far)is the Robert DeFragny Book written in the 1960s- "La Princesse du Chant." I have it, but, alas, I cannot speak French!
Vallin made this recording in 1914 for the French Gramophone (Société Du Gramophone) label. Nice!


Here is a description of Vallin written by Albert Carré, director of the Opéra-Comique:

“The exceptional quality of this voice, its purity, its freshness, its timbre, its color, its flexibility, its emotional character as well as the assurance and the taste with which it was used could leave no doubt whatever. We were in the presence of a great artist.”

Here played on a 1917 Victrola IX with an exhibition reproducer and using a medium Burmese Colour Needle (thorn).

https://www.burmesecolourneedles.com/