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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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has come to the vicinity of the cave to meet her lover, overhears this infernalbargain and determines to save him. Robert, dejected over the loss of his honor and wealth,meets Bertram, who promises that all shall be restored to him if he will have the courage to visitthe ruined abbey and secure a magic branch, which can give wealth, power and immortality. Du rendez-vous (This is Our Meeting Place) By Edmond Clement and Marcel Journet (In French) 76020 12-inch, $2.00 The next scene shows the ruins, where Bertram invokes the aid of the buried nuns incompleting the downfall of Robert. He speaks of the founding of the convent and of thefalse nuns who lie buried here, and calls upon them to arise. Whose unholy devotion was offered to other gods.Nuns, who beneath this cold stone repose,For an hour forsake your sepulcher beds,King of Hell, it is I who calls you. Bertram: Here are the nuns of the ancient monastery,To Heavens cause bequeathed by St. Rosalie,Here lie buried the false daughters
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THE RUINED ABBEY ACT II The spectres arise, andwhen Robert appears theydance around him and leadhim to the grave of St.Rosalie, where he is shownthe magic branch. Overcom-ing his fears, he grasps it, andby its power defeats the mul-titude of demons who arisefrom the infernal regions toprevent his escape. In the next scene Robertuses the branch to becomeinvisible, and goes to LadyIsabellas room to carry heroff. In this scene occurs thefamous air for Isabella, Oh,Robert, My Beloved. Robert, O tu che adoro (Oh, Robert, My Beloved !) By Margarete Matzenauer, Mezzo-Soprano (Italian) 88365 12-inch, $3.00She appeals to his better nature in this lovely cavatina : Isabella: Oh, Robert, oh, my beloved! Now at thy feet I kneel! I live alone, yes, alone for thee Mercy on thyself, My anguish thou seest, Oh, have mercy and pity on me! On thyself have mercy, and pity on me! Robert, who alone I cherish, Ah, the ties that once bound thee Thou for whom Id gladly perish, Now no more canst thou feel? My

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