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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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es what he has done.Seeing Desdemona lifeless, sheaccuses him of the crime andcalls loudly for help. All rushin and Emilia, seeing Iago, de-nounces him as the author ofthe plot, and tells Otello thatDesdemona-was innocent. TheMoor is torn with remorseand tenderly gazing on hisdead wife, sings his last air. Morte cTOtello (Death of Otello) By Francesco Tamagno, Tenor (In Italian) 95002 10-inch, $5.00 By Nicola Zerola, Tenor 74217 12-inch, 1.50 He then draws a dagger and stabs himself, and with an effort to embrace the Desde-mona he has so cruelly wronged, he dies. DOUBLE-FACED OTELLO RECORDSfDio mi potevi scagliare By Carlo Barrera, Tenor (/n//a//an)l --009I Ah! mille vite By Barrera and Badini (In Italian)) /Quando narravi By F. Lotti and F. Conti (InItalian)I55Q23 \Credo (Otellos Creed) By Ernesto Badini (In Italian)! jBrindisi, Act I and Morte dOtello Vessellas Italian Band\_5 ,-_\ Gioconda—Prelude, Act I (Ponchielli) Vessellas Italian Band\ * Double-Faced Record—See above list.
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THE MURDER OF DESDEMONA (ALDA AND SLEZAK) 12-inch, $1.5012-inch, 1.50 12-inch, 1.25 350 (Italian) I PAGLIACCI (Ee Pahl-yat-chee) (English) THE PLAYERS DRAMA IN TWO ACTS Words and Music by R. Leoncavallo The English version quoted from is by Henry Grafton Chapman Quotations from text and music (except the Prologue) by kind permission of G. Schirmer. (Copyt 1906) Ruggiero Leoncavallo was born at Naples,March 8, 1858, and was the son of a magistrate,the Chevalier Vincont, president of the tribunalof Potenza. His mother was a daughter of thecelebrated artist, Raffaele dAuria, famous forhis decorations in the royal palace at Naples.He took up the pianoforte at an early agewith Simonetti, a well-known teacher of Naples,and entered the Neapolitan Conservatoire, wherehe studied under Cesi, Ruta and Rossi. At sixteenhe made a concert tour as a pianist with somesuccess. Leaving the Conservatoire at eighteenhe promptly showed his leaning toward operaticcomposition by beginning to write an opera,

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