Vilhelm Herold and Emilie Ulrich - Parigi o cara (in Danish) ('La Traviata' - Verdi) (1907)

Описание: Vilhelm Herold and Emilie Ulrich sing 'Parigi o cara,' with the Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Saloman Levysohn, recorded in Copenhagen in September 1907.

From Wikipedia: Vilhelm Christoffer Herold (born March 19, 1865, in Hasle, Bornholm – died December 15, 1937, in Copenhagen) was an operatic tenor, voice teacher, and theatre director. Herold created the role of David in Carl Nielsen's opera Saul og David in 1902).

Herold he made his stage debut on February 10, 1893, in the title role of Gounod's Faust at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. However, he also sang throughout Europe, including a command performance for King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace in 1905. The previous year, he had made his Covent Garden debut in the title role of Lohengrin. He also sang at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.

Herold was a prominent interpreter of Pedro in Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland during the years following its premiere, with the composer himself pronouncing him as ideal in the role... He also sang Pedro in the 1913 Oslo performance of Tiefland which marked Kirsten Flagstad's stage debut. It was in Tiefland that Herold made his final appearance on the opera stage on March 19, 1915, his 50th birthday. However, he has left no recordings from this work.

Upon his retirement from the stage, Herold worked primarily as a voice and drama teacher at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, where he trained a generation of Danish singers, including Lauritz Melchior. From 1922 to 1924 he was also a director at the Royal Theatre, where he staged Louise and Boris Godunov.

A prolific recording artist, Herold's published discography numbers 135 titles...

Herold was also active as a sculptor. He mainly created portrait busts of friends and family. His first work, a bust of actor Otto Zinck, was acquired by the Danish National Gallery.

Emilie Ulrich (née Boserup) (26 November 1872 – 31 January 1952) was a Danish soprano who sang leading roles at the Royal Danish Opera from 1894 until her retirement from the stage in 1917.

She was born in Frerslev, a small town near Haslev in the Zealand Region and made her stage debut on 9 May 1894 as Margherita in Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele at the Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen . Amongst the roles she created there were Michal in Carl Nielsen's Saul og David (1902) and Leonora in Nielsen's Maskarade (1906). She also made a number of recordings in 1907–1908, including several with Vilhelm Herold.

Ulrich was appointed a Kongelige Kammersangere (Royal Chamber Singer) in 1906 and received the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1917. After her retirement she taught singing privately. She died in Copenhagen at the age of 79. Her daughter, Aase Ulrich, became a stage and film actress.


I transferred this recording from Gramophone Monarch 084006.