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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Addio (Farewell) By Nellie Melba,Soprano (Italian)88072 12-in., $3.00 By Geraldine Farrar,Soprano (Italian)88406 12-in., 3.00 By Alma Gluck,Soprano (Italian)64225 10-in., 1.00 Most pathetically does thepoor girls Farewell, may yoube happy come from hersimple heart, and she turns togo. Rudolph protests, some-thing of his old affection hav-ing returned at the sight ofher pale cheeks. Musetta now enters and isaccused by Marcel of flirting.A furious quarrel follows,which contrasts strongly withthe tender passages betweenMimi and Rudolph as the loversare partially reconciled. Quartet, Addio, dolce svegliare (Farewell, Sweet Love) By Geraldine Farrar, Gina C. Viafora, Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti (In Italian) 96002 12-inch, $6.00 By Dora Domar, Annita Santoro, Gino Giovannelli and Ernesto Badini (In Italian) 89048 12-inch, 4.00
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VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—PUCCINIS LA BOHEME 89006 12-inch, $4.00 *45122 *45013 60108 10-inch, 1.0010-inch, 1.0010-inch, .75 Like the Rigoletto Quartet, this number is used by the composer to express many diff-erent emotions: The sadness of Mi mis farewell to Rudolph; his tender efforts to induce herto remain; the fond recollections of the bright days of their first meeting—and contrastedto these sentiments is the quarreling of Musetla and Marcel, which Puccini has skillfullyinterwoven with the pathetic passages sung by the lovers. ACT IV. SCENE—Same as Act I Jit this time, the friends for many weeks had lived a lonely and melancholy existence. Musettahad made no sign, and Marcel had never met her, while no word of Mimi came to Rudolph, thoughhe often repeated her name to himself. Marcel treasured a little bunch of ribbons which had beenleft behind by Musetta, and when one day he detected Rudolph gazing fondly at the pink bonnetMimi had forgotten, he muttered: It seems I am not

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