The National Jukebox

Now hear online historical recordings from the Library of Congress:

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

For example, here is the incredible Enrico Caruso (pictured), surely the most famous operatic tenor of the early 1900s:



Looks like there are 176 Caruso pieces here. One I just spotted was Enrico doing the "O soave fanciulla" duet from Puccini's "La Bohème". Will have to give that a listen, for sure. Wonder who the soprano was? It will take some time to read up and work through this stuff -- and build up some playlists.

One of my anticipated future retirement projects was to be an attempt to digitize my very small collection of Caruso, mostly one-sided 78s, but now I may simply listen to those arias and more online. Brought to us by ... your Government!