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Click this link for more great Opera and Vocal Records in my other listings! Portrait of Eidé Norena in 1909 Famous NORWEGIAN French Soprano EIDE NORENA Odeon, Paris 1930-12-08Ki3938-2 d:o Coq d'Or (Rimsky-Korsakov): Hymne au soleil 188.796, Decca 20115Odeon, Paris 1930-12-11Ki3943 Guillaume Tell (Rossini): Sombre forêt 188.794, Decca 20115 French Odeon on US DECCA 10" 78 rpm recordCondition: EXCELLENT light scuffs just a hint of greying on Foret, plays very quiet rare ticksA GREAT COPYWhat else do we know about Karoline Hansen? This fine singer with exceptional voice control, born in Oslo in 1884, can be heard on records dating back to 1911/13 in roles as varied as Dinorah and Butterfly. Her voice was initially somewhat lacking in power and individuality but she was to become a good actress, trained for the stage by her husband, Egel Eidé, a well-known actor, whose name she took and retained. She was known as Kaja Eidé until her La Scala début as Gilda with Toscanini in 1924 when she was forty, but with a voice still so light that this début could have been both the making of her public reputation or the beginning of the end. However, this slender, graceful figure with a restrained voice hid sterner stuff. In London, she was helped with advice from Melba (not usually known for her generosity to potential rivals, though she had by this time given up the roles of Mimi, Violetta and Gilda, the newcomer's prime roles). Guided also by Raimund von der Mühlen, Kaja remodelled the character of her voice. Her high-placed attack was straight from the school of Marchesi; her timbre with its perceptible sensual tremulo, was like a vibrant celestial bell; her phenomenal breath control enabled her to master octave leaps, ornaments and sostenuto singing, while her perfectly formed and effective messa di voce was intact even in one of her last recordings, on retirement at 55, the Care selve from Atalanta. Her new identity was marked with a new name: Eidé Norena. Most of Eidé Norena's time was spent in Paris, at the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. For a good twelve years programmes featured her portrait, coiffured by Jean Patou, the epitome of understated chic, impeccable and exquisite; the same could also be said of her career. Despite her late start, she was spared the usual intrigue and rivalry as she rose to the peak of her profession. She made her first appearance at Covent Garden immediately after La Scala, once again as Gilda in Rigoletto, and managed not to offend Ivogün who had just appeared there in the same role. Following the stunning and idolised Lotte Schoene in the role of Liù (Turandot), Norena went on to acquit herself no less memorably as the simple Mimi (La Bohème), alongside Gigli and Stabile, described by The Times, in an unexpected and lavish compliment, as "an ensemble". Finally, in the coronation season she held her own as Desdemona against the giant voice and presence of Martinelli. She was in no way intimidated by such formidable stage partners: in Paris she had faced first Franz, then Melchior. Eidé did not set foot in America until 1926 when, like so many others, she chose Chicago for her début. However, Edith Mason was well established there and Norena was only given minor roles: Anna in Loreley, Eidé Norena was justifiably renowned throughout the 1930's for the light, flexible, pure performance of Thomas's Ophelia: the delicate pathos, her purity of spirit during the aria (which received the accolade of the Purple Label in ACSB re-issues) are without equal. At the end of her career, aged 55, her controlled breathing and vocal command, not to mention the octave leaps in her Care selve, are incomparable. Such unacknowledged virtuosity so late in the history of singing could only have belonged to an isolated genius, an outsider. 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Price: 14.99 USD
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Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, EIDE NORENA, Henri Defossé
Format: Record
Release Title: Coq d'Or Hymne au soleil/ Guillaume Tell Sombre forêt
Material: Shellac
Type: Single
Genre: World Music
Record Label: Decca
Record Size: 10"
Style: Aria, Brass, Cajun & Zydeco, Canadian Jazz, Chanson, Christian, Classic Female Blues, Classical Pop, Comedy/Novelty Music, Delta Blues, Europop, Field Recording, Film Score/Soundtrack, France & Belgium, Gypsy Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Marching, Music Hall, Musical/Original Cast, Radio Play/Show, Schlager, Traditional/Vocal, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Waltz, Big Band/Swing, Cabaret/Vaudeville, Italy, Opera, Story
Speed: 78 RPM
Language: French
Catalog Number: 20115
