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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CARMEN AND ESCAMILLO AT THE INN ACT Our pleasures double, shared by two!So just to keep me company,My beau Ill take along with me! A handsome lad—deuce take it all!—Three days ago I sent him off.But this new love, he loves me well;And him to choose my mind is bent. 58 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-BIZETS CARMEN
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THE INN OF PASTTA ACT Although Jose says to himself that the girl is only amusing herself, and whiling awaythe time with her gypsy songs, the words which fall on his ear—of a meeting-place on theramparts of Seville—of a soldier she loves—a common soldier, all these play upon the feel-ings of Jose and rouse in him a love for the changeful gypsy, who is fated to be the causeof his downfall. He unties her hands, and when the soldiers are conducting her to prison she pushes Jose,who falls, and in the confusion she escapes. /(a) First Intermezzo By Victor Herberts Orchestra) _nn^7. ._ . , ±. _- \(b) Prelude—1st Part By Victor Herberts Orchestra/ZUOGZ l^-mcn, ?1.25 ACT II SCENE—A Tavern in the Suburbs of Seville The second act opens amid the Bohemian surroundings of thetavern of Lillas Pastia ; the wild tune with which the orchestra leadsoff depicting the freedom and gaiety with which the mixed char-acters here assembled are wont to take enjoyment and recreation. Les tringles de

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