This is one of the most precious early live Operatic performance recording; The Opening Scene excerpt from Act 2 of Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci". Recorded Live by Lionel Mapleson at Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Recorded on a two minute Wax cylinder on January 30th, 1903.
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