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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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HAS POISONED HER SON To her horror she sees Gennaro among the guests. He, too, has drunk of the fatalwine. She again offers him an antidote, which he refuses, because the amount is insufficientto save the lives of his friends. Lucrezia confesses the relationship between them, butGennaro spurns her and dies. The Duke now appears, intending to share in Lucreziashideous triumph, but finds his wife surrounded by her victims—some dead, others dying.Lucrezia, a witness to the horrible result of her crime, suffers the keenest remorse, drinkssome of her own poison and herself expires. DOUBLE-FACED LUCREZIA BORGIA RECORDS Vieni, la mia vendetta By Giulio Rossi, Bass (In Italian)) Qli Ugonotti—Duetto Valentino Marcello >63404 By Maria Qrisi, Soprano, and Perello de Segurola, Bass) Rischiarata e la finestra (Yonder Light is the Guiding 1 Beacon) By La Scala Chorus (In Italian) L3172 10-inch Lucia di Lammermoor—Quando rapita in estasi By Qiuseppina Huguet, Soprano) 262 10-inch, $0.75 .75
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Lady Macbe Come, gentle my lord, Sleek oer your rugged looks! (Macbeth—Act III.) MACBETH OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Text by Piave and Andrea Maffei, after Shakespeare; music by Verdi. First producedat the Pergola, Florence, March 17, 1847. This version was given in New York in 1848.The opera was revised by the composer, translated into French by Nuitter and Beaumont,and given at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, April 21, 1865, with Ismael as Macbeth. Other opera composers who took Shakespeares work as a subject were Chelard, ParisAcademie, June 29, 1827 (text by Rouget de Lisle, writer of Marseillaise); and Taubert,1857. Beethoven also planned for an opera of Macbeth, but made only preliminary sketcheswhich are now in the Konigliche Bibliothek at Berlin. In the annals of music are to be founda Macbeth, by Andre (Berlin, 1780); and another by Reichart (Munich, 1795). Music forWilliam Davenants semi-operatic version of the tragedy was composed by Matthew Locke.This was produced by Davenants widow

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