Music: Brains or Biology?
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On Stage At The Met, 1901 – Thanks to Lionel Mapelson
Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House. (ca. 1901-1903)
Lionel Mapelson was a librarian at the Metropolitan Opera over 110 years ago and an amateur inventor who recorded bits of early Met performances on a hand cranked machine.
Great Performances at The Met: Romeo et Juliette – February 1, 1947
The Opera News (program) for the February 1, 1947 Metropolitan Opera matinee broadcast of Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.
Of the more than 1300 live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera (since 1931) Charles Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette (February 1947) is among those to have attained “legendary status.”
