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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anslated as follows: It is better to laugh than be sighing.When we think how lifes moments are flying;For each sorrow Fate ever is bringing,Theres a pleasure in store for us springing.Tho our joys, like to waves in the sunshine, Gleam awhile, then are lost to the sight,Yet, for each sparkling rayThat so passes away, Comes another as brilliant and light. Brindisi In the world we some beings discover, Far too frigid for friend or for lover;Souls unblest, and forever repining,Tho good fortune around them be shining.It were well, if such hearts we could banish To some planet far distant from ours;Theyre the dark spots we trace,On this earths favored space; They are weeds that choke up the fair flowrs! Then tis better to laugh than be sighing; They are wise who resolve to be gay;When we think how lifes moments are flying, Enjoy Pleasures gifts while we may! In the midst of the feast the door opens, the Borgia appears and tells them that theyare doomed, as the wine has been poisoned by her.
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LUCREZIA DISCOVERS SHE HAS POISONED HER SON To her horror she sees Gennaro among the guests. He, too, has drunk of the fatalwine. She again offers him an antidote, which he refuses, because the amount is insufficientto save the lives of his friends. Lucrezia confesses the relationship between them, butGennaro spurns her and dies. The Duke now appears, intending to share in Lucreziashideous triumph, but finds his wife surrounded by her victims—some dead, others dying.Lucrezia, a witness to the horrible result of her crime, suffers the keenest remorse, drinkssome of her own poison and herself expires. DOUBLE-FACED LUCREZIA BORGIA RECORDS Vieni, la mia vendetta By Giulio Rossi, Bass (In Italian)) Qli Ugonotti—Duetto Valentino Marcello >63404 By Maria Qrisi, Soprano, and Perello de Segurola, Bass) Rischiarata e la finestra (Yonder Light is the Guiding 1 Beacon) By La Scala Chorus (In Italian) L3172 10-inch Lucia di Lammermoor—Quando rapita in estasi By Qiuseppina Huguet, Soprano)

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