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DescriptionMassenet - Le Cid - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux.ogg
"Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux" from Jules Massenet's Le Cid (1885) sung by Marguerita Sylva for Edison Records in 1910. This recording is Edison Amberol #40021.
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The assets of Edison Records have been transferred to the National Park Service. These recordings may be considered public domain through the donation (this is unclear), or otherwise orphan works as copyright has not been asserted by the National Park Service or any successors to Edison Records.
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Note: The restored MP3 versions of the recordings from the University of California Santa Barbara Library are available only under an unacceptable non-commercial license.[1] Unedited raw (.wav) versions were formerly available from that site under a dedication into the public domain; while they are no longer available, those .wav files downloaded before the change in policy (dated June 2009) can still be used freely.
For the opera itself:
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The author died in 1912, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
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