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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els and begs her to have pity on him. (Arie des Erik (Eriks Song) By Karl Jorn, Tenor (In German))Dielustigen Weiber—Horch, die Lerche U5087 10-inch, $1.00 (Merry Wives of Windsor) By Karl Jorn, Tenor (In German)) Suddenly the Hollander comes upon the scene and is horror-stricken at the tableau.Believing Senta to be false, he cries, All is lost; Senta, farewell! The crews of both ships appear and the townsmen rush to the scene. The Dutchman reveals his identity and de-clares himself cursed forever.He springs upon his ship—the crimson sails expand as ifby magic and the ship de-parts, with the crew chantingtheir weird refrain. Senta, in wild exaltation,rushes to the shore callingtoward the departing vessel:I am faithful unto death,and throws herself into thesea. The Flying Dutchmansinks beneath the water, andrising from the wreck can beseen the forms of Senta andthe Dutchman clasped in eachothers arms. The curse hasbeen banished—true love hastriumphed! SENTA IS FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
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MISCELLANEOUS FLYING DUTCHMAN RECORDS By Pryors Band (Trying Dutchman Fantasia\ Pagliacci—Prologue By Pryors Band)35158 12-inch, $1.25 163 (Italian) LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Lah Fort -zah del Des-tee-noh) THE FORCE OF DESTINY OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Book by Piave; music by Giuseppe Verdi. First produced at St. Petersburg, Novem-ber II, 1862; in London June 22, 1867; in Milan 1869; Paris, 1876; Berlin, 1878. FirstNew York production February 2, 1865, with Carozzi-Zucchi, Massimilliani and Bellini. Itwas not heard again for fifteen years, when it was produced at the Academy of Music, withthe last act rewritten by the composer, the cast including Annie Louise Cary, Campanini,Galassi and Del Puente. Given recently in San Francisco by the Lombardi Opera Company. Characters Marquis of Calatrava, (Kai-ah-trah-oah) Bass DONNA LEONORA.l , . .... /Soprano r>~v, ^ » ^, ~ r nis children i~ . DON CARLO, J IBaritone DON ALVARO, (Ahl-vah-roh) Tenor ABBOT OF THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS Bass MELITONE, a friar

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