Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Verranno a te sullaura (Borne on Sighing Breeze) >62106 10-inch, .75 By Trentini and Martinez-Patti (In Italian)) (Quando rapita in estasi (Swift as Thought) By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian) V63172 10-inch, .75 Lucrezia Borgia— Rischiarata e la finestra — La Scala Che (Italian)) f Prelude (Act I, Scene II) By Francis Lapitino, Harpist) ._g29 10-inch 75 \ Norma — Fantasie By Francis Lapitino, Harpist)
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LUCREZIA AND THE SLEEPING GENNARO ACT I (Italian) LUCREZIA BORGIA (Loo-krez-yah Borjah) OPERA IN THREE ACTS Text by Felice Romani, from Victor Hugo's novel. Music by Gaetano Donizetti. First presented to the public at La Scala, Milan, in 1834; given at the Theatre Italien, Paris,October 27, 1840. First London production, June 6, 1839; in English, December 30, 1843. Produced in New Orleans, April 27, 1844. Produced in New York at the Astor Place Opera House, 1847, and September 5, 1854, with Maria Grisi; given in 1855 at the Boston Theatre, with Grisi and Mario, this being the first Italian Opera Company to sing at the present Boston Theatre; in May, 1855, Steffanone, Brignoli and Vestali appeared in the opera at the Boston Theatre; and later a long list of popular singers appeared in Boston as Lucrezia, among them La Grange, Parodi, Cortesi, Comte-Borchard, Medori, Carozzi-Zucchi,Parepa Rosa, Lavielli, Tietjiens and Pappenheim; given in New York in 1876, with Tietjiensand Brignoli, and not ag

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