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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re ofthe Countess appears, and Hermann, imagining she has come for his life, stabs himself. Tschaikowsky has written much beautiful music for this work, but the gems of the operaare probably the numbers here presented—the delightful duet for Lisa and Pauline in thesecond scene of Act I, which reminds one somewhat of the lovely Tales of Hoffman Bar-carolle; the solo of Lisa in Act III, given as she waits on the banks of the Neva for herlover, Hermann; and the duet from the Carnival Scene, Act II, sung by Daphnis and Chloe inthe little pastoral given for the amusement of the guests. Es dammert (It is Evening) Act I, Scene II By Emmy Destinn and Maria Duchene (In German) 88520 12-inch, $3.00 Es geht auf Mitternacht (It is Nearly Midnight) Act III By Emmy Destinn, Soprano (In German) 88518 12-inch, 3.00 O viens mon doux berger (My Dear Shepherd) Act II By Emmy Destinn and Maria Duchene (In French) 88529 12-inch, 3.00 By Maria Michailowa and Mine. Tugarinoff (Russian) 61136 10-inch, 1.00
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SCENE FROM PIRATES OF PENZANCE THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR THE SLAVE OF DUTY COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS Text by Sir W. S. Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. The first performance onany stage took place in New York, December 31, 1879, under the immediate supervision olMr. Sullivan and Mr. Gilbert, the cast including J. H. Ryley, Signor Brocolini, Hugh Talbot,Frederic Clifton, Blanche Roosevelt and Alice Barnett. Produced at the Opera Comique,London, April 3, 1880. Revived June 3, 1912, by Messrs. Shubert and W. A. Brady, withEugene Cowles, Arthur Aldridge, George MacFarlane, De Wolf Hopper, Blanche Dumeldand Josephine Jacoby. Characters MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY Baritone PIRATE KING Bass SAMUEL, his lieutenant Tenor FREDERIC, the pirate apprentice Tenor SERGEANT OF POLICE Bass MABEL) kTATF (General Stanleys daughters Sopranos Isabel J RUTH, a pirate maid-of-all-work Contralto Pirates, Police, etc. Time and Place : The scene is laid on the coast of Cornwall; time, the present. VICTROLA BOOK

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