12/129 Two per turn keywind Fat Cylinder by Nicole Freres circa 1855
Serial No. 32569 Gamme No. 1212
Bought at auction April 2025
This box has an exact twin to a box that belongs to another collector.
This box has an exact twin to a box that belongs to another collector.
Before restoration
Tunes:
Vincenzo Bellini
1. Me Protegge No. 1 Norma
Norma is an Opera in two acts first produced at La Scala in Milan on 26th December 1831.
The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel canto genre, and the soprano prayer "Casta diva" in Act 1 is a famous piece. Among the well known singers of Norma of the first half of the 20th century was Rosa Ponselle who played the role in New York and London. Notable exponents of the title role in the post-war period have been Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Joan Sutherland, and Montserrat Caballé.
"Me protegge, me difende" from Act 1, Scene 1 means "I am protected, and defended".
Norma is an Opera in two acts first produced at La Scala in Milan on 26th December 1831.
The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel canto genre, and the soprano prayer "Casta diva" in Act 1 is a famous piece. Among the well known singers of Norma of the first half of the 20th century was Rosa Ponselle who played the role in New York and London. Notable exponents of the title role in the post-war period have been Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Joan Sutherland, and Montserrat Caballé.
"Me protegge, me difende" from Act 1, Scene 1 means "I am protected, and defended".
2. Hear une Nosina si Fino
Also from the opera Norma, this time from Act 2, Scene 1
"Si fino all'ore estreme" means "Until the last hour"
Also from the opera Norma, this time from Act 2, Scene 1
"Si fino all'ore estreme" means "Until the last hour"
Gaetano Donizetti
3. Oh Summer Night Serenade from the comic opera Don Pasquale by Donizetti, his first opera se to a French text.
A lullaby
A lullaby
4. Marche de la fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) from the comic opera by Donizetti which was first performed on 11th February 1840 in the Paris Opéra Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.
Vincenzo Bellini's La Sonnambule (The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime written by Eugène Scribe. The ballet premiered in Paris in September 1827 at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism.
5. Perch non posso odiarti, infedele, com'io vorrei! (Why cannot I despise you, faithless, as I should?)
6. Ah! Non giunge unman pensiero / al contento ond'io son piena (Human thought cannot conceive of the happiness that fills me) is an aria finale expressing joy.
Daniel Auber's Les diamants de la couronne (The Crown Diamonds) ia a comic opera first performed at the second Salle Favart in Paris on 6th March 1841. The plot concerns a Portuguese princess, Catrina, who intrigues with bandits after she is forced to sell the crown diamonds of the title.
7. Finale des Diainans (incorrect spelling by the calligrapher)
8. Grand de quittois ina Normanesve
9. Snom la Timber Marche Rivertoni
10. Son Vergin Vezzosa from I Puritani by Bellini 1835
Gioachino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is a comic opera in two acts. It is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described nd the opera buffa of all "opera buffa".
11. Sorgo all Fortissimo Barbier by Rossini
12. Zitti Zitti Piano Piano by Rossini is one of the final arias of the opera sung when the lovers discover that the ladder they intended to use to escape has been removed.