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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f!Ramfis: Rhadames, Rhadames: and thou wast absentFrom the camp the very day before thecombat! Ml VfillV >:ymd®& - aftk %Wm\ f/ SC0MPARIN1 THE DESPAIR OF AMNERIS ACT IV Sacerdoti, compiste un delitto! (Priests, a Crime You HaveEnacted!) By Lavin de Casas, Contralto; F. Rizzo, Bass, and Chorus of Priests (In Italian) 88323 12-inch, $3.00 The priests now enter from the crypt and pass across the hall. The wretched womandenounces them. Priests of Heaven, a crime you have enacted,Tigers even in bloodshed exulting,Earthly justice and Heavens you are insulting,On the guiltless your sentence will fall!Priests: (Departing slowly.)None can his doom recall! Amneris: Impious priesthood, curses light on ye all!On your heads Heavens vengeance will fall!(Exit wildly.) This is one of the most impressive records of the Aida series. The despair of thewretched Jlmneris, and th» solemn reply of the unbending priests are wonderfully expressedby Verdi. 27 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA — VERDIS AIDA
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MISHKINCONSTANTINO AS SCENE II—Interior of the Temple of Vulcan—belowa Subterranean Apartment The work finishes in serenity and peace, and such terminationsare the most beautiful. Above, the temple full of light, where theceremonies continue immutable in the sanctuary of the indifferent gods;below, two human beings dying in each others arms. Their song oflove and death is among the most beautiful of all music. —CamilleBellaigue. When we hear the expression the duet from Aida, ourthoughts always instinctively turn to this number at the closeof the work. There are other duets in the opera, some of themfine numbers, but this is the great one—perhaps the most in-tensely dramatic and melodiously beautiful of all Verdis writ-ings. La fatal pietra (The Fatal Stone) By Johanna Gadski, Soprano, and Enrico Caruso, Tenor (In Italian) 89028 12-inch, $4.00By Nicola Zerola, Tenor (Part of scene— To die, so pure and lovely!) (In Italian) 74225 12-inch, 1.50 This last scene is a highly pict

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