Rosario Bourdon was a regular conductor for Victor.

Balfe – The Bohemian Girl – Vocal Gems:
Light Opera Company:
Sopranos: Della Baker, Helen Clark, Erva Giles, Emily Stokes Hagar, Olive Kline, Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Gladys Rice
Contraltos: Edna Indermauer, Marie Stone Langston, Mrs James Price
Tenors: Franklyn Baur, Richard Crooks, Charles H Hart,  Lambert Murphy
Baritones: Royal Dadmun, Elliott Shaw
Basses: Frank Croxton, Wilfred Glenn

Light Opera Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon

Balfe – The Bohemian Girl – Vocal gems – Bourdon

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His Master’s Voice C 1382
Matrices CVE-17507-01, 17508-10 (HMV sides 2-04606, 2-04607)
Recorded 25th August 1926, Victor Church Building Studio, Camden, New Jersey

Score references to Boosey The Royal Edition vocal score (1899)
Side 1:
Intro.: – Away to Hill and Glen – I dreamt that I dwellt (Eb, p96-98, on pitch) – Heart bow’d down – Silence (D, p82-84, 87, semitone down) – Fair Land of Poland – Happy and light (Eb, p114-117)

Side 2
Intro.: – In the gipsy life (G, p32-35 – on pitch) – Come with the Gypsy Bride – Bliss for ever past – What is the spell – Then you’ll remember me (Db, p178-9) – Oh what full delight

Verdi – Aïda – Vocal Gems
Grand Opera Company
Sopranos: Della Baker, Helen Clark, Vivian Holt, Olive Kline, Lucy Isabelle Marsh, Ruth Rodgers
Contraltos: Elsie Baker, Rose Bryant
Tenors: Richard Crooks, Charles H Hart, Judson House, Lambert Murphy
Baritones: Stanley Baughman, Royal Dadmun
Basses: Frank Croxton
Orchestra, Rosario Bourdon

Verdi – Aida – vocal gems – Bourdon
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His Master’s Voice C 1605
Matrices CVE-13995-20, 13996-23
Recorded 13th July 1928, Liederkranz Hall, New York
76.3rpm