Marcella Sembrich - Sempre libera (LIVE fragment) - 1903 Mapleson Cylinder
Act I: Sempre libera excerpt : "Amor, amor è palpito" … "dee volar il pen[sier]"
Marcella Sembrich (s), Violetta
Carlo Dani (t), Alfredo
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Luigi Mancinelli, conductor
February 27, 1903
In 1900-01, the season's only performance of La Traviata starred Nellie Melba. After she left the company, Marcella Sembrich succeeded to the part, which she had first sung at the house nearly two decades earlier, during its opening season; she gave one performance in 1901-02, four in 1902-03 (three of them prior to the first of the year). Mapleson captured souvenirs of both these Violettas.