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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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with her lover, but the Marquis refuses to believe these accusations against his wife.Griselidis returns and tells the Marquis of the kidnapping of little Loys, and they pray thathelp may be given them to fight the powers of evil. Whereupon the cross on the altaris turned into a flaming sword, and when Griselidis prays to St. Agnes that her son berestored to her, there is a flash of lightning, a clap of thunder and the triptych opens,revealing the image of St. Agnes holding in her arms, not the white lamb, but the childLoys. A glad pealing of bells can be heard as the Marquis and Griselidis, with their childbetween them, are happily reunited. The Victor offers a record of the air Ouvres-vous sur mon front, which occurs at thebeginning of the opera. It is the song of the shepherd Alain, telling of his love for themaiden, Griselidis. Ouvres-vous sur mon front, portes du Paradise ! (OpenNow to My Eyes, Portals of Paradise !) By Charles Dalmores, Tenor (In French) 88397 12-inch, $3.00 195
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DIABLE AND FIAMINA IL GUAR ANY OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Text by Antonio Scalvini; music by Antonio Carlos Gomez. First produced at LaScala, Milan, March 19, 1870, and shortly afterward at Genoa, Florence and Rome. FirstLondon production, Covent Garden, July 13, 1872. The work has never been given in NorthAmerica. Characters DON ANTONIO DE MARITZ, a Portuguese Knight Bass CECILIA, his daughter Soprano PERY, chief of the tribe of Guarany Tenor DON ALVARO, a Portuguese adventurer Tenor GONZALES l r Baritone RUY-BENTO \ Spanish guests of Don Antonio, adventurers < Tenor ALONSO J I Bass IL CACICO, chief of the Aimore Tribe Bass PEDRO, guard in the service of Antonio Bass Time and Place: Brazil, in the neighborhood of Rio Janeiro; 1560 Antonio Carlos Gomez was born in Campiners, Brazil, July 1 1, 1839, of Portugueseparents. Early in his youth he was sent to Milan at the expense of the Empire of Brazil, andstudied at the Milan Conservatory, his principal teacher being Signor Rossi. His first op

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