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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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ll over with you, Don Pasquale! All that now remains for you to do^ Is quietly to go and drown yourself!)Norina: (I must confess, tis rather hard a lesson; Yet was required to have its due effect.) Im going now, then—Pasquale: Oh, yes, certainly! But do not take the trouble to return.Norina: Oh, we shall see each other in the morning.Pasquale: A face of wood—a closed door, you will find. As she goes out she intentionally drops a note which• mish^n Don Pasquale seizes and peruses. He is petrified to find bori as norina—act ii that it reads: Adored Sophrania— Between the hours of nine and ten I shall be at the bottom of the garden— This is too much, and the unhappy man runs in search of Malatesta. Ernesto and theDoctor enter, discussing the plot, and the young man, after being instructed to be at thegarden rendezvous at nine that evening, goes out. Pasquale returns, and going solemnly up to the Doctor, exclaims: Brother-in-law, in me, *Double-Faced Record—See page 102. 101
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VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—DONIZETTIS DON PASQUALE alas, you see a dead man, walking upright, and tells him of the contents of the note.Malatesta pretends to sympathize and proposes that they lie in wait for the guilty lovers thatevening and teach them a severe lesson. Pasquale gloats over his coming triumph. Aspetta aspetta cara esposina (Wait, Wait, Dear Little W^ife) By Antonio Pini-Corsi, Baritone, and Giovanni Polese, Baritone (Doubk-Faced—See below) (In Italian) 62103 10-inch, $0.75 Pasquale: Malatesta (aside): Wait, wait, dear little wife, Oh, the poor fellow! I soon revengd will be: Vengeance hes prating; Een now tis near, my life. Let the dolt bellow— This night, without delay, He knows not whats waiting! Thou must the reckoning pay! SCENE II—Don Pasquale s Garden—// is Night—Ernesto is Discovered WaitingThis scene begins with the beautiful serenade, the most melodious of the airs inDonizettis work. Serenata—Com* e gentil (Soft Beams the Light) By Enrico Caruso,

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