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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T I 492 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-PUCCINIS TOSCA ACT I SCENE—Interior of the Church of St. AndreaMario Caoaradossi, the painter, enters the church, where he has been at work on aMadonna. As he uncovers the portrait, the Sacristan, who is assisting Mario, is surprisedto discover in the face of the painting the unknown beauty whom he had noticed of late in the church. Mariosmilingly confesses that whileshe had prayed he had stolenher likeness for his Madonna.Then taking out a miniatureof his betrothed, Tosca, hesings a lovely air in which hecompares her dark beautywith the fair tresses and blueeyes of the unknown worship-per, calling it a strange butharmonious contrast. Recondita armonia(Strange Harmony) By Enrico Caruso,Tenor (In Italian)87043 10-inch, $2.00By Giovanni Martinelli,Tenor (In Italian)64420 10-inch, 1.00His musings are inter-rupted by the hurried entranceof a man in prison garb, pant-ing with fear and fatigue,whom Mario recognizes as anold friend, Angelotti, a political
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fOSCA AND MARIO IN THE CHURCH ACT prisoner. Mario, in response to his friends appeal for assist-ance, hastily closes the outer door, and conceals Angelottiin the chapel, just as Toscas voice is heard impatientlydemanding admittance. „ ^ He admits her, but is anxious and ill at ease, fearingto intrust even Tosca with so dangerous a secret, but shenotices his preoccupation and is somewhat piqued becausehe is not as attentive as usual. She is at first jealous andasks him if he is thinking of another woman; but soon re-pents, and in the charming love scene which follows en-deavors to smooth his brow by planning an excursion forthe morrow. She sings of the delights of the proposed visit to thevilla, and the romantic forest where they will wander andforget the cares and troubles of their professional life. He listens but seems absent-minded, and she con-tinues her recital of the joys of their secluded little retreatamong the hills. Mario says she is an enchantress, andin a duet they excha

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