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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nce, whenthe Witch comes out and casts a spell over them. Hexenritt und Knusperwalzer (Witchs Dance) By Alma Gluck and Louise Homer (In German) 87131 10-inch, $2.00 She makes a good fire in the stove for the purpose of roasting the babes, and in herjoy she rides wildly around the room on a broomstick, singing this unique Hexenritt. The duet begins with the soliloquy of the Witch as she sees Gretel peeping into theoven, and prepares to push her in to be baked into magic gingerbread. The second part of the duet is the portion called the Witchs Waltz, and is sung anddanced by Hansd and Gretel after the wicked Witch has been pushed into the oven. Theydance around the room, wild with joy, and then prepare to eat their fill of the good thingsstored in the Witchs house. After the death of the Witch the gingerbread children come to life and thank the chil-dren for releasing them from the spell. The father and mother of Hansel and Gretel nowarrive and embrace the children as the curtain falls.
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THE CHAMBER OF HEROD / (French) HERODIADE (Ay-rohd-yadd) OPERA IN FIVE ACTS Words by Paul Milliet and Henri Gremont, based on Gustave Flauberts novelette*Herodias. Music by Jules Massenet. First production December 19, 1881, at the Theatrede la Monnaie, Brussels. Produced in Paris at the Theatre Italien, February 1, 1884, withJean and Eduard de Reszke, Maurel, Tremelli and Devries. Revived at the Theatre de laQaite in 1903, with Calve and Renaud. First German production in Hamburg, 1883, withSucher, Krauss and Winkelmann. First London production 1904, under the title Salome,with Calve, Kirkby Lunn, Dalmores and Renaud, and with the locale changed to Ethiopia by the British censors orders. First American productionat the New Orleans Opera in 1892. Produced by OscarHammerstein at the Manhattan Opera House, New York,November 8, 1909, with Cavalieri, Gerville-Reache,Duchene, Dalmores and Renaud. Revived February,1914, by the Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Company. CAST JOHN THE PROPHET Tenor

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