The Mapleson Cylinders

The first recordings of opera from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, restored on six 33 rpm records from the 1900-1904 cylinders in the Library's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; with an illustrated 72-page booklet of musical biographies and texts performed.

Available from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498