English: Puccini - La Bohème - Marcella Sembrich as Mimi - Aimé Dupont
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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entrancing she appears to him. 7406274448 12-in., $3.0012-in., 3.00 12-in.,12-in.,12-in., C0PVT MISHKIN GILLY AS MARCEL O soave fanciulla—Duo andFinale, Act I (Thou Sweet-est Maiden) By Nellie Melba, Soprano,and Enrico Caruso, Tenor 95200 12-inch, $5.00By Lucrezia Bori and JohnMcCormack (In Italian) 87512 10-inch, 3.00Love awakens in the heart of thelonely girl, and she pledges her faith tothe handsome stranger who has comeinto her life. The lovely motive withwhich the duet begins is associatedthroughout the opera with the presenceof Mimi, and is employed with touchingeffect in the death scene in Act IV. Mimi consents to go to the Cafe Momus, where his friends areto dine, and after a tender scene at the door they go out, and the cur-tain slowly falls. ACT II SCENE—A Students Cafe in Paris This act represents the terraces of the Cafe Momus, where theartists are holding a carnival. Puccini has pictured with masterlyskill the noisy, bustling activity of this scene, and the boisterous
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SEMBR1CII 43 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—PUCCINIS LA BOHEME
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