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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UBLE-FACED AND MISCELLANEOUS NORMA RECORDS By Arthur Pryors Band)3516&By Arthur Pryors Band) Overture Oberon Overture (Weber)In mia mano alfin tu sei (In My Grasp) By Ida Giacomelli, Soprano, and Gino Martinez-Patti,Tenor (In Italian) Favorita—Fia vero lasciarti (Shall I Leave Thee ?) By Clotilde Esposito, Soprano, and Gino Martinez-Patti, Tenor (In Italian)Hear Me, Norma! By Pryors Band) 1^323 Mignon—Gavotte By Victor String Quartet) Hear Me, Norma! By Francis Lapitino, Harpist). 7929 Lucia—Prelude Bp Francis Lapitino, Harpist) Casta Diva (Queen of Heaven) 1 By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian) U ^539Lucia—Regnava nel silenzio (Silence Oer All) By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian))Mira o Norma (Hear Me, Norma) By Ida Giacomelli, Soprano, and Lina Mileri, Contralto (In Italian) V62101 Carmen—Preludio, Act IV By La Scala Orchestra) 12-inch, $1.25 ^68309 12-inch, 1.25 10-inch,10-inch, .75 .75 10-inch, .75 10-inch, .75 * Double-Faced Record—See above list. 341
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THE ENCHANTED FOREST ACT OBERON or THE ELF-KINGS OATH ROMANTIC FAIRY OPERA IN THREE ACTSText by James Robinson Planche; music by Carl Maria von Weber. First produced atCovent Garden, London, April 12, 1826, in English, under the personal direction of the com-poser. Translated into German by Theodor Hell, and given in Leipsic, December, 1826;Vienna, March 20, 1827; Berlin, July 2, 1828. First Paris production, in German, in 1830,was a comparative failure. Revived at the Theatre Lyrique, translation by Nuitter, Beau-mont and Chazot, with success, February 27, 1857. Revived in London, December 7, 1878.First American production, New York, October 9, 1827. Revived at the Academy of Music,March 29, 1870, in English, with Parepa-Rosa and Mrs. Seguin. The opera was first sung inItalian at Her Majestys, London, July 3, 1860, with recitatives by Sir Julius Benedict, andthis version was given in Philadelphia in 1870. Revived in New York in 1912. Characters Sir Huon de Bordeaux Tenor SHERASMIN, h

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