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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PARSIFAL AND THE FLOWER MAIDENS (HENRY W. SAVAGE PRODUCTION) 373 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—WAGNERS PARSIFAL Damsels (laughing): If thou art friendly come more nigh. Let kindness be accorded, And thou shalt be rewarded: For gold we do not play But only for loves sweet pay. Wouldst thou console us rightly Then win it from us, and lightly. Some have gone into the grovesand now return in flower dresses, ap-pearing like flowers themselves. Theyplayfully quarrel for possession of Par-sifal, who stands looking about him inquiet enjoyment of the scene. Hefinally gently repulses them, saying : Parsifal: Ye wild crowd of beautiful flowers,If I am to play, ye must widen yourbowers. As they push closer to him hebecomes angry and tries to flee, but hisattention is suddenly arrested as Kundrycalls, Parsifal, tarry! He stops inastonishment, saying: Parsifal: Parsifal . . .? So once, when dreaming, my mother called me.Kundrys Voice: Here bide thee, Parsifal! Where joy and gladness on thee shall fa

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