English: Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - Louise Homer as the page
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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others. They recognize the seal of Margaretof Valois, and cast looks of envy at him as he follows the page. ACT II SCENE—Castle and Gardens of ChenonceauxThe Queen is seated on a kind of throne surrounded by her maids, who, with Urbano,are assisting in her toilet. She rises and sings hergreat air in praise of fair Touraine. O, vago suol della TurennaLand of Touraine) (Fair By Frieda Hempel, Soprano (In French) 88382 12-inch, $3.00 By Giuseppina Huguet, Soprano (In Italian) *35123 12-inch, 1.25 Queen: Oh, lovely land of fair Touraine! Thy vine-clad hills, thy sparkling fountains, Thy green banks and thy murmring zephyrs, All fill my soul with peace and love! Yet, for a difference in belief, This fair scene may by war be staind! Oh, that men would observe the moral, To love and fear the all-powerful Being! But hence with sorrow! Care we will banish; Quick, let it vanish, far, far away! In the land where I reign, From the mount to the main, All re-echo the strain Thats devoted to love!
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COPYT OUPONT HOMER AS THE PAGE *Double-Faced Record—See page 215. 211 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—THE HUGUENOTS
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