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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eut-il pour moi!(But this God, What Will He do for Me?) By M. Campagnola, Tenor, and M. Cerdan, Bass (In French) *55087 12-in., $1.50 He goes to the window, and filled with rage at thesight of human happiness, he curses all earthly thingsand calls on Satan to aid him. Faust: If I pray there is none to hear— To give me back my love, Its believing and its glow. Accurst be all ye thoughts of earthly pleasure! Fond dreams of hope! ambitions high, And their fulfillment so rare! Accurst; my vaunted learning, And forgiveness and prayer! Infernal king, appear! (Mephistopheles appears.) Mephistopheles, attired in the dress of a gallant, promptly appears in response to thecall and proposes that the good Doctor shall enter into a compact with him. In returnfor riches, glory, power, anything he desires, Faust shall merely give up his soul! Theaged philosopher, spurning gold and power, cries out for youth, only youth! * Double-Faced Record—See page 147. VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-GOUNODS FAUST
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(Italian) KERMESSE SCENE (PARIS OPERA) (French) Io voglio il piacer A moi les plaisirs (The Pleasures of Youth) By Leon Campagnola, Tenor, and M. Cerdan, Bass (French) *55087 12-in., $1.50By Gaetano Pini-Corsi, Tenor and Aristodemo Sillich, Bass (In Italian) *63174 10-in., .75The bargain is soon agreed upon and Faust is about to pledge his soul in return for youthand love, but as he still hesitates, Mephisto says, See how fair youth invites you! Look! O merveille (Heavenly Vision) By Enrico Caruso, Tenor; Marcel Journet, Bass (In French) 89039 12-in., $4.00 Then follows the delicate passage forstrings which accompanies the vision. Faust,gazing upon the beautiful Marguerite, sings : The scroll is signed in letters of fire, Faustdrains the magic potion and is transformedinto a youth. The spirited duet which followsends the first act. ACT II—The Fair (The scene shows a fair in progress in the public square of a German town) A motley crowd of students, soldiers, old men, young women and

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