Links & Useful Contacts
If you have a collection of 78 rpm discs of operatic artists for sale please feel free to contact The Record Collector for advice and guidance.
Croydon Record Fair (an excellent place to buy 78s, LPs and CDs of great singers)
For details of dates and location please click here
The Federation of Recorded Music Societies (FMRS)
Society for lovers of recorded vocal art
The Recorded Vocal Art Society - Programme for season 2012 - 2013 this way…
Interesting sites for lovers of great singers
www.operanostalgia.be/ Opera Nostalgia: an excellent site with biographies of singers, sound samples, comparative reviews and much else
www.lavoceantica.it/ An amazing site with fascinating chronological and discographical information on Italian and non-Italian singers and Italian opera companies active all around the world during the period 1870-1930.
http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/ CLOR: an Indexed Electronic Catalogue in which it is intended to list all recordings that are or have been commercially available of "complete" operas. It is a fantastic source for both complete recordings and an individual singer's legacy.
Journals of interest to the record collector
http://crq.org.uk Classical Recordings Quarterly: publishes articles on great artists of the past (vocal, instrumental and orchestral), histories of record companies and much else.
Where you can buy historic 78s of great singers
Larry Holdridge, 54 East Lake Drive, NY 11701-3211. U.S.A. Tel: 631-598-2409. e-mail:
Norbeck, Peters & Ford, 59 Congress Street, Saint Albans, VT 05478-1611, USA. Tel: (802) 524-7673; e-mail: web site: http://www.norpete.com
David A. Reiss, P.O. Box 2109, Seaford, NY 11783. U.S.A. Tel: 516-798-3381. e-mail:
Milt Weiss, 3400 North 47th Ave., Hollywood, FL 33021-2350. U.S.A. Tel: 954-962-8280
Nauck’s Vintage Records, 22004 Sherrod Lane, Spring, Texas 77389-4539, U.S.A.. Tel: 281-288-7826.
e-mail: website: www.78rpm.com
Mike Comber, 12 Manor Park, Watling Street Rd, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8LU, U.K. Tel: 01772 792127
Andreas Schmauder, Phonopassion, Friedrichshof, Im Bohrer 7, 79289 Horben, Germany. Tel: (+49) 761 290 97 78. e-mail: website: www.78rpm.org
Harry Butler, 11856 Moorpark St, Unit E, Studio City, CA 91604, U.S.A. Tel: 818-761-8006. e-mail: . Ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Forgotten-Voices
Where you can buy transfers to CD of historic records
Marston Records: www.marstonrecords.com
Cheyne Records: www.cheynerecords.co.uk
If you have a collection of 78 rpm discs of operatic artists for sale please feel free to contact The Record Collector for advice and guidance.
