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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PHOTO GARO SCOTT) AS SCARPIA 88075 12-inch, 88192 12-inch, 88487 12-inch, 76018 12-inch, 74400 12-inch, 45017 10-inch, $3.003.003.002.001.501.00 The unhappy woman asks what she has done that Heaven should forsake her. Scarpia,who is watching her intently, calls her attention to the sound of drums, summoning the escortfor the condemned prisoners, and demands her answer. She yields, bowing her head forshame. Scarpia is overjoyed, and when she insists that Mario shall be set free he consents,but says a mock execution is necessary. It is agreed that after this pretended execution, Mario shall have his liberty, but Toscademands a safe escape from the country for them both. While Scarpia is writing the docu- 495 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE O PE RA— PUCCI N PS TOSCA
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THE MURDER OF SCARPIA ACT II ment, Tosca contrives to secure the dagger from the table, and as Scarpia approaches togive it to her and then take her in his arms, she stabs him, crying that thus she gives him the kiss he desired. In a prolonged and highly dra-matic scene she takes the paper from Scarpias dead fingers, then washes her hands in a bowl on the table, places the two can-dles at the dead mans head and the cross on his bosom, then goes out, turning for a last look at the lifeless body as the curtain falls. ACT III (A terrace of San AngeloCastle, outside the prisoncell of Cavaradossi. Viewof Rome by night) The music of the open-ing act is most effective,with its accompaniment ofpealing church bells. Prelude v. & IF ^bM^^ aft* cap; 1 W^4^w if copr-t M1SMKIN I

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