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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er of Poland. Moussorgskys masterly opera is intenselyRussian in character, and relates actual eventsin the history of Russia during the reign of theCzar Feodor, son of Ivan the Terrible, whileBoris Godounow was acting regent. Moussorg-sky has simplified Poushkins text somewhat,and has written a prologue to precede the drama,which has scarcely anything in common withPoushkins book. Boris, the acting regent, has caused themurder of Dimitri, the younger brother of loanthe Terrible, to whom the throne would havepassed on Ivans death, but he is remorsefulfor his act and has entered a monastery on theoutskirts of Moscow. ACT I At the opening of the opera the peopleare urging him to declare himself Czar. In thesecond scene the guilty ruler overhears Pimenn,an old monk, relating to a young novice, Gregory,the story of the murder, which fires Gregorysimagination so that he escapes from the cell,flees to the Lithuanian border and declareshimself to be Dimitri, who he insists was neverslain. 51
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VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —BORIS GODOUNOW

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