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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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development in Carmen.The character of the music, less passionate and highlycolored than Carmen, is yet equally original and of evenmore striking beauty. The story tells of the love of two Cingalese pearlfishers for the priestess Leila, and of the generosity ofthe unsuccessful rival, who helps the lovers to escapeat the cost of his own life. THE PRELUDE The prelude is a most beautiful number, and con-sidered one of the finest of Bizets instrumentalwritings. Preludio (Prelude) By La Scala Orchestra *62100 10-inch, $0.75 ACT I SCENE—The Coast of Ceylon The rise of the curtain discloses a company ofCingalese pearl fishers, who, after choosing one of theirnumber, Zurga, to be their chief, are enjoying themselveswith games and dances. Nadir appears and Zurgarecognizes him as a friend of his youth. They greeteach other and speak of the days when they wererivals for the hand of a beautiful woman. Nadir, be-ginning the duet, recalls the moment when thefriends first beheld the lovely Leila.
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DUFRANNE AS ZURGA (Italian) Del tempio al limitar (English) (In the Depths of the Temple) (French) (Au fond du temple) By Enrico Caruso and Mario Ancona (In Italian) 89007 12-inch, $4.00 By Edmund Clement and Marcel Journet (In French) 76022 12-inch, 2.00 By John McCormack and G. Mario Sammarco (Italian) 87082 10-inch, 2.00 By Giuseppe Acerbi and Renzo Minolfi (In Italian) *68063 12-inch. 1.25 In an impressive strain he describes the scene within the Temple of Brahma: Nadir: In the depths of the temple A lovely form we beheld, That form I still can see!Zurga: Twas a vision of beauty!Nadir: The kneeling worshipers, astonished. Now murmur, The goddess comes!Zurga: She descends from the altar And, moving near to us Lifts her veil, revealingA face that haunts me stillWith its beauty ethereal!Nadir: But now her veil she drops And, passing through the wandering crowd She disappears. Now a strange emotion overpowers me, I fear to touch thy hand. Zurga: A fatal love both our souls possess. Th

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