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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.) By John McCormack, Tenor By Leon Beyle, Tenor (In Italian)(In French)(In Italian)(In Italian) 81031742586600164312 (In French) *45008 10-inch,12-inch,10-inch,10-inch,10-inch, $2.001.501.501.001.00 Des Grieux: With fancys eye I saw, Manon, A sweet and lowly cot. Its white walls, deckd with flowers fair, Gleamd thro the wood! Beneath whose peaceful shadows Ran clear the babbling brook; Overhead, mid verdant leaves Sang so sweet and full the joyous birds, Tis paradise! Ah, no, All is sad, so sad and dreary, For, O my only love, thou art not there. Manon (softly): Tis a vision, tis but a fancy!Des Grieux: No! for thus well pass our life, If but thou wilt, O Manon! A knock is heard and Manon exclaims, aside, Oh, Heaven, already they have comefor him ! She tries to prevent him from opening the door, but he insists, and is seizedand carried away, while Manon, suddenly repenting, is overcome with grief. * Double-Faced Record—See page 284. 281 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —MASSENETS MANON
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ACT III SCENE—A Street in Paris on a Fete Day Manon enters, accompanied by de Bretign\)and several gallants. She is in a gay mood andextols youth and love in a fine vocal gavotte. Gavotte—Obeissons quand leur(Hear the Voice of Youth) By Geraldine Farrar, Soprano (In French) 87023 10-inch, $2.00By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian) *45028 10-inch, 1.00 Manon: List to the voice of youth when it calleth, It bids ye to love for aye! And ere the pride of beauty falleth, Love then while you may. The heart, alas, to love is eer willing, And ever willing to forget, So while its pulse is thrilling, Love, ere its day hath set! Manon, seeing des Grieuxs father, timidly ap-proaches him and asks if des Grieux has forgottenher. She learns that the young man has for-farrar as manon—act in given her, buried his love, and is planning to enter a monastery. When the Count has departed, the capricious girl resolves to go to St.Sulpice and see for herself if she has been so easily forgotten; an

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