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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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and the first great duet of the act occurs. Gia i sacerdoti adunansi (The Priests Assemble) By Louise Homer and Enrico Caruso (In Italian) 89050 12-inch, $4.00 Aida a me togliesti (Aida Thou Hast p Taken) By Louise Homer and Enrico Caruso (In Italian) 89051 12-inch, $4.00Amneris offers to save his life if he will renounceAida. He scorns her proposal, resolving to die ratherthan be false to his Ethiopian Princess.Amneris: Renounce her foreverAnd thou shalt live!Rhadames: I cannot do it!Amneris: Wouldst thou die, madman?Rhadames: I am ready to die.Amneris: Who saves thee, O wretch,From the fate that awaits thee?To fury hast thou changedA love that had no equal.Revenge for my tearsHeaven will now consummate!Rhadames:Death is a supreme blessing,If for her it is given me to die.The guards now appear and conduct Rhadames tothe judgment room. The ensuing scene is a highlydramatic and impressive one. him— Oh! if he could love me!I would save him—but how?Let me try. Guards, Rhadames comes.
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dai.mores as rhadames 26 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-VERDIS AIDAOhim! Morir mi sento (Ah, me ! Death Approaches !) By Lavin de Casas, Contralto, and Chorus (In Italian) 882 70 12-inch, $3.00 Amneris, seeing Rhadames taken out by the Priests, repents her harshness and sinksdown desolate on a seat. and Amneris (falling on a chair, overcome). Ah me! Deaths hand approaches! who now will save him?He is now in their power.His sentence I have sealed—Oh, how I curse thee,Jealousy, vile monster, thou who hast doomed himTo death, and me to everlasting sorrow!(Turns and sees Ramfis and the Priests, who cross the stage and enter the subterranean hall.)What see I? Behold of deathThe ministers fatal, his merciless judges. Priests: Defend thyself! Ramfis: Rhadames, Rhadames: thou hast playedThe part of a traitor to King, and to honor! Priests: Defend thyself! Ramfis: He is silent. All: Traitor vile I Ramfis: Rhadames, we thy fate have decided,Of all traitors the fate shall be thine—Neath the alta

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