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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16552 10-inch, $0.75 Faust observes Marguerite, and approaching her, greets her respectfully: Faust: High-born and lovely maid, forgive my humble duty,Let me, your willing slave, attend you home to-day? She modestly declines his attentions, saying: Marguerite: No, my lord, not a lady am T, Faust (gazing after her) : Nor yet a beauty; By my youth! what a charm! And do not need an arm, She knows not of her beauty. To help me on my way. Oh! darling child, I love thee! The waltz now re-commences and the act ends in a wild and exciting dance, in whichall join—students, soldiers and women. ACT III—The Garden Scene The Garden Scene of Faust is undoubtedly Gounods finest inspiration; and the sensuousbeauty of the music with which the composer has surrounded the story of Margueritesinnocence and trust betrayed, has held many millions in rapt attention during the sixtyyears since it was first heard. * Double-Faced Record—Seepage 147. 130 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE O P E R A — G O U NODS FAUST
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PARIS OPERA Flower Song—Le parlate cTamor (In the Language of Love) By Louise Homer, Contralto (In Italian) 87075 10-inch, $2.00 By Corinne Morgan, Contralto (In English) *35086 12-inch, 1.25 By Rita Fornia, Soprano (In French) 64162 10-inch, 1.00 By Emma Zaccaria, Mezzo-Soprano (In Italian) *62085 10-inch, .75 This fresh and dainty song of Siebel ushers in the act. The gentle boy enters Margueritesgarden, thinking of the dark prophecy of Mephistopheles, who had told him (in Act II): Each flower that you touch,Every beauty you dote onShall rot and shall wither! Siebel now thinks to put this curse to a test, and prepares to send a message of love toMarguerite by means of a flower, singing In the language of love, oh gentle flowr,Say to her I adore her. Then gath-ering a blos-som he ex-claims, ashe sees itfade: Andante. Recit. rfTT^^r^^^^nrr^^l^ ahi • me lo stre-go ma - le det - to mel di - ce - va orTis itrilh-erd! A-lasf that dark stran-gerfore • told me What my fate must But th

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