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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to thee will fly. Thine shall be my parting sigh, Oh Walter mine! Night has now fallen and the courtiers, led by Ceprano, enter, wearing masks. Rigo-letto returns and is much alarmed to see them in this neighborhood, but his fearsare allayed when they announce that they have come to carry off Cepranos wife, ashe is well aware that the Duke has had designs on that lady for some time past. He tellsthem Cepranos palace is on the opposite side and offers to help them. They insist thathe must be disguised and contrive to give him a mask which covers his eyes and ears, andlead him in a circle back to his own balcony, giving him a ladder to hold. Gilda is seized,her mouth gagged with a handkerchief, and she is carried away. Rigoletto, suddenly finding himself alone, becomes suspicious, tears off his mask andfinds himself at his own balcony. Frantic with fear he rushes in, finds his daughter gone,and falls in a swoon as the curtain descends. 422 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —VERDIS RIGOLETTO
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THE ABDUCTION OF GII.DA SCENE- ACT II -A Hall in the Dukes Palace Parmi veder le lagrime (Each Tear That Falls) By Enrico Caruso, Tenor (In Italian) 88429 12-inch, $3.00 The Duke, after his tender parting with Qilda, in the previous act, had again returnedto the Jesters house, only to find it deserted and the young girl gone. Not knowing thathis courtiers had carried her off under the very nose of Rigoletto, he bewails the unhappyfate which has robbed him of his latest conquest. As we hear him sing his pathetic lament,we forget his real nature and almost sympathize with the unhappy lover! This melodious number has been much neglected in American performances of theopera, being usually omitted. The Duke: Dear maid, each tear of thine that falls,Each sad sigh that bosom heavingPining within some dreary walls,Fills me with grief theres no relieving.Ah ! vainly didst thou cry to me,Help me, dear Walter, help! No aid could I afford thee; Yet, could my life thy woes repay, Gladly exchangd i

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