Эмми Дестин Un bel di vedremo (’Madame Butterfly’ - Puccini) (1911)

Destinn recorded ’Un bel di’ on 16 December 1911. From Wikipedia: Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová; 26 February 1878 – 28 January 1930) was a Czech operatic soprano with a strong and soaring lyric-dramatic voice. She had a career both in Europe and at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Destinn was born Emílie Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová in Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her voice teacher since age thirteen had been Marie Maria von Dreger Loewe-Destinn, and the young singer began using her teacher’s surname as a tribute. She was let go after the short engagement at the Dresden Opera and declined by Prague National Theatre in 1897. She debuted on 19 July 1898 at the Berlin Court Opera as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. She made such progress that the intendant of the Berlin Court Opera engaged her at once when she was brought to intendant’s notice. She was only nineteen at the time, but her voice and her acting soon won the B