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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for his opportunity. He sings, beginning the quartet:Duke: Fairest daughter of the graces,I thy humble slave implore thee,With one tender word to joy restore me,End the pangs, the pangs of unrequited love.Of my anguish see the traces,Thee I treasure all above.With one tender word to joy restore me,End the pangs, the pangs of unrequited love!Maddalena (repulsing him) :I appreciate you rightly,All you say is but to flatter.Ah, I laugh to think how manyYet your tender tale may move!Rigoletto, who desires to prove to Gilda that her loveris false, bids her look through the window of the inn atthe scene within. The unhappy girl, convinced, exclaims:Gilda: Ah, to speak of love thus lightly!Words like these to me were spoken,He is false; my heart is broken!Kigoletto: Silence, thy tears will not avail thee,It were baseness to regret him!Thou must shun him and forget him.(With fierce joy.)Thy avenger I will proveThe strength to punish will not fail me That I vow to every power that rules above!
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DUPONT HOMER AS MADDALENA * Double-Faced Record—Set page 430. 428 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA — VERDIS RIGOLETTO The Duke now goes to his bedroom and is soon asleep. Rigoletto bids his daughter goto Verona with all speed and he will meet her there. She reluctantly departs and Rigo-letto pays Sparafucile half his price, the remainder to be paid on the delivery of thebody of the Duke at midnight. Rigoletto goes away just as Gilda, who has disobeyed herfather, returns and tries to see what is going on inside the house. Sparafucile enters thehouse and Maddalena, who has taken a fancy to the Duke, begs her brother to spare hislife, delicately suggesting that he kill Rigoletto and take the money from him. Spara-fucile is indignant and pro-tests that he has never yetfailed in his duty to his em-ployers. Maddalena pleadswith him and he finally saysif another guest should enterhe will kill him instead ofthe Duke. Sparafucile: If some one should enter eremidnight has sounded, I promise that

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