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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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girl is broughtin and laid on Rudolphs bed,while he is distracted withgrief. The friends hasten toaid her, Marcel going for adoctor, while Colline, in orderto get money to buy delicaciesfor the sick girl, decides topawn his only good garment,an overcoat. He bids fare-well to the coat in a patheticsong. Vecchia zimarra (Coat Song) By Marcel Journet (In Italian) 64035 10-inch. $1.00 Colline goes softly out, leaving Mimi and Rudolph alone, and they sing a beautiful duet. Sono andati ? (Are We Alone ?) By Maria Bronzoni, Soprano, and Franco de Gregorio, Tenor (In Italian) *45013 10-inch, $1.00By Claire Dux, Soprano; Karl Jorn, Tenor (In German) *55070 12-inch, 1.50 The past is all forgotten and the reunited lovers plan for a future which shall be freefrom jealousies and quarrels. Just as Mimi, in dreamy tones, recalls their first meeting inthe garret, she is seized with a sudden faintness which alarms Rudolph, and he summonshis friends, who are returning with delicacies for the sick girl.
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PAINTED BY BAIESTRIERI THE DEATH OF MIMI * Double-Face Record—See page 47. 46 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—PUCCINIS LA BOHEME Mimis Tod (Mimis Death Scene) By Claire Dux, Soprano ; Karl Jorn, Tenor (In German) *55070 12-inch, $1.50 But the young girl, weakened by disease and privations, passes away in the midst ofher weeping friends, and the curtain falls to Rudolphs despairing cry of Mimi! Mimi! DOUBLE-FACED BOHEME RECORDS (In Italian) (68453La Scala Chorus) (InCje • (Mimi e una civetta (Cold-hearted Mimi!)By de Gregorio, Casini and FerrettiTrovatore (Soldiers Chorus) (Verdi) (In Italian(Sind wir allein ? (Are We Alone ?)By Claire Dux. Soprano ; Karl Jorn, TenorMimis Tod (Mimis Death Scene)By Claire Dux, Soprano; Karl Jorn, Tenor (In German))jBoheme Selection By Pryors Band\„(.ft__ \ Jolly Robbers Overture By Pryors Band)*™*- L (Boheme Selection By Pryors Band\353-3 \ Madame Butterfly Fantasia Cello By Rosario Bourdont (Ah, Mimi, tu piu By Da Gradi and Badini (In Italiari)\a

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