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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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kind of trance. She tries to enter the church, but the influence of Mephistopheles prevents,and she returns to the house and falls into the arms of Faust. The last act contains four scenes. Scene I shows a moonlit room where the unhappyMarguerite sings her lament. This changes to a rocky pass where Mephistopheles informsFaust that Marguerite is about to be executed for the murder of her mother. Faust demands thatshe be saved, but is first required by Mephistopheles to sign the fatal contract which pledgeshis soul to the Devil. Summoning the infernal steeds Vortex and Giaour, the wild Ride to Hell commences, shown by a striking moving panorama, while at the close theseen hovering above the town to rescue the soul of the pardoned Marguerite. DOUBLE-FACED DAMNATION OF FAUST RECORDS/Hungarian March\ Carmen—Prelude /Menuet des Follets By lOrchestre Symphonique) „ 54,50 \ Marche Hongroise By lOrchestre Symphonique) By Sousas Band). 80-2By La Scala Orchestra) angels are 12 $1.25 12 1.25
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THE RIPE TO HELL ACT (English) DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT (French) LA FILLE DU REGIMENT Lah Feeyeh d Rezh-ee-mong) COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS Words by Bayard and St. Georges. Music by Donizetti. First produced at the OperaComique, Paris, February II, 1840; Milan, October 30, 1840; Berlin, 1842, at the Royal Opera,and during the next sixty years it had two hundred and fifty performances on that stage.Produced in London, in English, at the Surrey Theatre, December 21, 1847, and during thesame year, in Italian, with Jenny Lind. The first American performance of which the authorhas knowledge was that at the New Orleans Opera, March 7, 1843. Jenny Lind, Sontag,Lucca and Patti have all appeared here as Marie. Revived in 1902-03 at the MetropolitanOpera House for Sembrich, the cast including Charles Gilibert as Sulpizio. Produced byOscar Hammerstein in 1909, with Tetrazzini, McCormack and Gilibert. Characters TONIO, a peasant of Tyrol Tenor SULPIZIO, Sergeant of the 21st Bass MARIE, Vivandiere of

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