[78-L] Are There Any Operatic Collectors Still Out There?

[Dustin Wittmann]

I'm a younger 78 collector of about a year, age 30, and joined the list a
couple weeks ago. Most of young collectors, including myself, don't focus
on opera because it isn't portrayed in most online resources for 78s as
sexy and alluring as the prewar blues etc. and because most of us don't
have much opera background besides Bugs Bunny cartoons and television
commercials. I personally actually enjoy opera thanks to an audio lecture
series I downloaded a few years back about opera listening and
understanding, and I patronize my city's opera.

When I go out and look for records, I pass up opera because most of the
stuff out there doesn't have any real resale value, and I barely have
enough room for the stuff that I do focus on let alone a bunch of 12"
World's Greatest Music albums. That said, I'd buy something I recognize as
rare like a G&T if I ever found it, and I'd find room if I had the
opportunity to acquire a collection of rarities.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Ian Ridgeway <ianridgeway at gmail.com.invalid
> wrote:

>
> I'm a young opera record collector. There are not many of us. I met a few
> 78 collectors through my interest in jazz but none that collects early
> opera. I'm approaching 25 years old and I have been collecting 78s since I
> was 8, so we do exist and I hope more people my age will discover the vocal
> gems of the golden era of opera.
> On Mar 19, 2015 2:58 PM, "OKIN EARL" <spats47 at ntlworld.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >
> > The reasons that I wanted to know if there were any operatic collectors
> out
> > there were twofold.
> >
> > (1) I have 300 duplicates which I need to sell to make some SPACE!!!
> > Please contact me at
> > spats47 at ntlwotld.com
> > for the link.
> >
> > (2) As I approach 70yo, I'm wondering if there are any YOUNG operatic
> 78rpm
> > collectors out there whom I might befriend and, when the sad day
> arrives, I
> > can leave my collection to...
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Earl Okin.
> >
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:50:20 -0700
> > > From: Ron Fial <ron at fial.com.invalid>
> > > Subject: Re: [78-L] Are There Still Operatic 78rpm Collectors?
> > > To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > > Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20150318224623.1067bbc8 at fial.com>
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> > >
> > > My wife and I are opera lovers.  I believe there are a lot of us opera
> > > lovers out here, we just don't talk much.  Its getting much harder to
> > find
> > > mint condition 78s, but to me it is easier for opera disks, it seems
> they
> > > were played less, or borrowed from libraries less.
> > >
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