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 VISION OF MARC.ARF.T 312 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPER A—B O ITOS MEFISTOFELE
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On its surface vile races dwell, degraded, toilsome, quarreling among themselves. They laugh at me, but I can laugh also! Faust now sees a vision of Margaret, on her way to prison for the murder of her mother and her babe. A red stain on her neck horrifies him, but Mefistofele laughs and says, Turn away your eyes. The act closes in a riotous orgy, the demons whirling and dancing in a mad revelry. This wild scene is graphically pictured in Kreling's painting, reproduced on page 312. ACT III SCENE— The Prison of MargaretThe demented girl is lying on a straw bed. She rouses herself and sings her sad ballad, L altra notte. Laltra notte (Last Night in the Deep Sea) By Geraldine Farrar, Soprano (Italian) 88114 12-inch, $3.00 By Elda Cavalieri. Soprano (Italian) 55015 12-inch, 1.50 She raves of the cruel jailers, whom she says threw her babe into the ocean and now accuse her of the crime. Margaret : To the sea, 0 night of sadness! They my babe took and in it threw him! Now to drive me on to madness,

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