A photo of Lionel Mapleson, pasted in one of his journals.Alex Teplitzky/NYPL In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson, then the librarian at New York's Metropolitan Opera, did something new: He took an Edison "Home" model phonograph and recorded operas with an orchestra as they were being sung on stage.
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