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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ell, well, what mattersGo; and may Heaven bles it?you! Figaro: Bravo, bravo, Doctor!Let me embrace you! Rosina: Oh, how happy we are!Count: Oh. propitious love!Figaro: Young love, triumphant smiling, All harsher thoughts exiling, All quarrels reconciling (Curtain) Now waves his torch on high! DOUBLE-FACED BARBER OF SEVILLE RECORDS By Pryors Band\35125By Pryors BandfBy La Scala Orchestral 6g010By La Scala Orchestra) rarber of Seville SelectionPropheie Fantasie (Meyerbeer)/Overture \ Don Pasquale—Overture (Donizetti)/Manca un foglio (Heres a Leaf Out) By A. Rossi, BassK g. . . \Una voce poco fa By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano/ (Guarda Don Bartolo (Look at Bartolo !) By Huguet, 1 I A. and G. Pini-Corsi, and Badini (In Italian) (63171 ( Fra T>iaoolo—Agnese la Zietella By Pietro Lara (In Italian) J /II vecchietto cerca moglie By Emma Zaccaria (In ^a^an)\fc2105 (Pace e gioia By A. Pini-Corsi and Perea (In Italian)) 38 12-inch, $1.25 12-inch, 1.25 12-inch, 1.25 10-inch, .75 10-inch, .75
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AN OPEN-AIR PERFORMANCE OF BARTERED BRIDE AT ZOPPSOT, NEAR DANZIG (English) (Bohemian) BARTERED BRIDE PROD ANA NEVESTA (German) DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT COMIC OPERA IN THREE ACTS Libretto by Sabina. Music by Friedrich Smetana. First per-formance, Prague, May 30, 1866, where the success of the workled to Smetanas appointment as director of the Prague opera.Produced at the Vienna Music Festival 1892, from which time itsfame really dates, and it is now to be found in the repertoire ofnearly every German opera house. First London production, DruryLane, June 26, 1895, and at Covent Garden in 1907. First heardin America at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, February19, 1909, with Destinn, Jorn, Didur and Reiss, under the directionof Gustav Mahler. When Director Schubert produced this work for the first timebefore a German-Austrian public in 1892, the surprise of the audi-ence was great, and on all sides was heard : How is it possiblethat such genius has not been recognized in Germany and Au

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