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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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days, and consequently is still a member of the band until sixteen more leap years haverolled around! A strong sense of duty influences him to consent to return to the Piratesand serve out his unexpired term of something like sixty years! He also considers it hisduty, now that he is a pirate once more, to tell them of the Generals falsehood, and theyswear vengeance. In an attempt to carry off the General the pirates are captured by the policemen, but askfor their liberty on the ground that they are really English noblemen gone wrong. Onpromising to give up their piratical career they are pardoned, and this releases Frederic,who is now free to marry Mabel. Six of the best numbers from the opera are given in this medley by the Light Operaforces. Gems from Pirates of Penzance Chorus of Pirates—Solo, Poor Wandring One—Solo, Is There Not OneMaiden Breast—Solo, and Chorus, A Policemans Lot—Chorus, WithCatlike Tread —Finale. By the Victor Light Opera Company 31808 12-inch, $1.00394
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PHOTO white PRINCE IGOR DEPARTS FOR THE WAR ACT I PRINCE IGOR RUSSIAN OPERA IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS Libretto by the composer and his friend, Vladimir Stassoff, based on The Epic of theArmy of Igor, an old historical Russian chronicle, supposed to have been written by aliterary monk in the twelfth century. Music by Alexander Porphyrievich Borodin. Firstproduction at Imperial Opera House, St. Petersburg, October 23, 1890. First American pro-duction in New York, December 30, 1915, with the cast given below. Characters PRINCE IGOR SV1ATOSLAVITCH Pasquale Amato PRINCESS JAROSLAVNA, his wife Frances Alda VLADIMIR IGOREVITCH, his son Paul Althouse PRINCE GALITZKY AND K.ONTCHAK Adamo Didur KONTCHAKOVNA, his daughter Flora Pereni OVLOUR Pietro Audisio SCOULA Andrea de Segurola EROCHKA Angelo Bada A YOUNG GIRL Raymonde Delaunois Although Borodin has written many symphonic works, Prince Igor was his only opera,and even that was not finished when he died in 1887, although begun twenty years

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