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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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COPTT MISHKIN ROTHIER AS TOMASO The conspirators, Samueland Tomaso, are uneasy,thinking themselves sus-pected, but the Governorlaughs and asks who willgrasp his hand to prove theprophecy false. No onedares to grant his request.Richard: Which one will prove The prophecy false? (Offers his hand, but allrefuse it.) Reinhart, who has be-come anxious about his chiefand has come in search ofhim, now enters, and seeingthe Governor, shakes himby the hand, calling him byname, to the astonishmentof all those not in the secret.Sir Richard tells the witch sheis a false prophet, as this ishis most faithful friend. Richard: The oracle has lied! That man who grasped my handIs my most faithful friend!
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DE SEGUROLA AS SAMUEL By Johanna Gadski, SopranoBy Lucia Crestani, Soprano All the people greet the Governor with cheers, and kneeling, sing the hymn : O figlio cTInghilterra (Oh, Son of Glorious England) By Giuseppina Huguet, Ines Salvador, Francesco Cigada, Aristodemo Sillich, and La Scala Chorus (In Italian) *b31Z3 10-inch, $0.75 ACT IISCENE I—A Field—on one side a GallowsAmelia, much frightened by her lonely surroundings, enters in search of the magic herb.She sings her dramatic air, Yonder Plant Enchanted. Ma dallarido stelo divulsa (Yonder Plant Enchanted) (In Italian) 88496 12-inch, $3.00(In Italian) *68143 12-inch, 1.25 Amelia: When at last from its stem I shall sever Yonder weed of dread virtue enchanted, From my tempest-torn bosom forever When that image so ethereal shall perish, What remains to thee then, oh, my heart! Ah, tears blind me! The weight of my sorrow Chains my steps on their desolate journey! Heart, have courage; From these rocks their hardness borrow! Come,

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