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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e, Show it to the Queen;She will save you, she will guard you When no other help is seen. Lionel: Here in peace and sweet contentment Have I passed my life with you;Stronger, daily, grew a friendshipThat forever lasts, when true.Both: Brother, think not wealth and splendor,If perchance they eer be mine,Can as happy this heart renderAs the friendship fixd in thine. The disguised ladies now appear, accompanied by the unwilling and disgusted Tristan,who considers the whole affair a joke in very bad taste. The two young farmers spy the girls, and being much takenwith their looks, offer to hirethem. The ladies, carryingfurther their mad prank, ac-cept the money which isoffered them, not knowingthat they are legally boundthereby to serve their newmasters for a year. Tristanloudly protests, but is hootedoff the grounds, and thefrightened girls are takenaway by the farmers. ACT II SCENE—A FarmhouseAs the curtain rises thefarmers enter, dragging withthem the unwilling and ter-rified maidens.
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THE SPINNING WHEEL QUARTETTE Siam giunti, o giovinette (This is Your Future Dwelling) By Frances Alda, Soprano; Josephine Jacoby, Contralto; Enrico Caruso, Tenor; Marcel Journet, Bass (In Italian) 95207 12-inch, $5.00 The farmers address the maidens as follows: Lionel and Plunkett: This is your future dwelling; And traveling has an end.Harriet and Nancy: Were reaping for our folly, Full measurd punishment!Lionel and Plunkett (cordially): Our house and home are yours now, Their comfort you will share.Harriet and Nancy (ironically): Their house and home are ours now, O we unhappy pair! The quartet passage with whichFlotows opera. Lionel and Plunkett: At dawn of day and morns first glimpse Be up and stir about!Harriet and Nancy: What vulgar ways they make us take! Before the sun is out! More monstrous things theyll next command That we never heard about!Lionel: And extra crowns your purse may see Before the year is out! this record ends is one of the most beautiful in Che vuol dir cio (S

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