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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KLINGSOR HURLING THE SACRED LANCE 375 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-WAGNERS PARSIFAL
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URNEMANZ S HERMITAGE ACT 111 ACT III SCENE—A spring landscape in the grounds of Monsaloat. At the back a small hermitage Gurnemanz, now an aged man, in hermits dress but still wearing the tunic of a Knight ofthe Grail, comes out of the hut and listens. He then goes to a thicket and finds Kundryapparently lifeless, but she revives under his ministrations. She is dressed as in Act I, andsoon arises and goes immediately, like a serving maid, to work. She enters the hut, pro-cures a water jug which she fills at the spring. Gurnemanz watches her carefully, seeing signsof a change in her. Parsifal now enters from the wood in complete armor and seats himself.Gurnemanz, not recognizing him, reminds him that no armed knight is allowed in the sacredpremises, and especially on this day, Good Friday. Without saying a word, Parsifal rises,removes his helmet, and kneels down in silent prayer. Gurnemanz in surprise, says softlyto Kundry : Gurnemanz: Dost know who tis? . . . He who long since laid

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