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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middle;behind it the throne with canopy whereAmfortas is set down.First Train (with the Grail andAmfortas) :To sacred place in sheltering shrineThe Holy Grail do we carry.Second Train (with Titurels coffin):A hero lies in this dismal shrineWith all this Heavenly strength,To whom all things once God did entrust:Titurel hither we bear. Amfortas Gebet, MeinVater! (AmfortasPrayer, My Father) By Clarence Whitehill(In German)74406 12-inch, $1.50 Amfortas (raising himself on his couch):My father! Highest venerated hero!Thou purest, to whom once een the angels bended!Oh! thou who now in Heavenly heightsDost behold the Saviours self,Implore Him to grant that His hal-lowed blood,He pour upon these brothers.To them new life while giving,To me may offer—but Death!My father! I—call thee.Cry thou my words to Him:Redeemer, give to my son release! Several Knights (pressing forward):Uncover the shrine!Do thou thine office! Amfortas (in a paroxysm of despair) :No!—No more!I bid ye to slay me! 379
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AMFORTAS (Tears open his dress.) Behold me!—the open wound behold! Here is my poison—my streaming blood.Take up your weapons!Kill both the sinner and all his pain:The Grails delight will ye then regain! VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—WAGNERS PARSIFAL

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