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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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aye, to you all I say it! For the stage there and life, they are different altogether! ********** * If up there, (pointing to the theatre) Pagliaccio his lady should discover With some fine fellow in her room, ITed give the two a rating ... or resign himself, And take a jolly beating! (With a sudden change of tone) But if Nedda I really should surprise so.What came after were a far different story! Nedda, who is listening, is surprised and says aside: What does he mean ? Thevillagers, rather puzzled at his earnestness, ask him if he is serious. With an effort he rouses himself from his gloomy mood and says lightly: Not I—I love my wife most dearly!(He approaches Nedda and fosses her on the forehead.)The sound of bagpipes (oboe) is heard in thedistance, telling of the merrymaking in the village,and the church bells begin to toll the call to vespers.The people commence to disperse, and Canio againrepeats his melodious strain of invitation: (He goes with several peasants into the inn.)
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campane (Chorus of the COPYT DUPOBT FARRAR AS NEDDA Nedda, left alone, is troubled Coro dellaBells) By La Scala Chorus (In Italian) *35172 12-inch, $1.25This is the famous Bell Chorus, or Ding DongChorus, one of the most remarkable numbers in theopera. It is sung with spirit, and the chiming bells areintroduced in a most effective manner. The people gooff singing and the measures die away in the distance,by her remembrance of Canios manner and wondersif he suspects her. But shaking off her depression, she becomes once more alive to thebrightness of the day, which fills her with a strange delight. Ballatella, *k Che volo cTaugelli! (Ye Birds Without Number!) By Lucrezia Bori, Soprano (In Italian) 88398 12-inch, $3.00 By Alma Gluck, Soprano (In Italian) 74238 12-inch, 1.50 By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian) *35172 12-inch, 1.25 A gay tremolo in the strings announces the theme of the birds, and Nedda speaks of her mother, who could understand their language. Nedda: Ah, ye birds w

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