English: Boito - Mefistofele, act III - Scene - Photo Byron (note: This is obviously act IV, not III as stated in the source)
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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-631 73I Ernani—Ernani involami By Maria Grisi, Soprano (In Italian) 12-inch, $1.25 12-inch, 1.25 12-inch, 1.25 10-inch, 75 309
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SCENE FROM MEFISTOFELE (ACT (French) MEFISTOFELE (May-phee-stoh-feh-leh) (English) MEPHISTOPHELES (Mef-iss-tof-e-leez) OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Text and music by Arrigo Boito; a paraphrase of both parts of Goethes Faust. The first production at La Scala, Milan,1868, was a failure. Rewritten and givenin 1875 with success. First London pro-duction July 6, 1880. First Americanproduction at the Academy of Music,November 24, 1880, with Campanini,Cary and Novara. Given at the NewOrleans Opera in 1881, in Italian, andin 1894, in French. Other New Yorkproductions were in 1896, with Calve;in 1889, in German, with Lehmann;and in 1901 with Mclntyre, Homer andPlancon; in 1904 with Caruso andEames; in 1907, for Chaliapine; in 1906at the Manhattan Opera; the Chicagoopera revival for Ruffo; and the re-cent Metropolitan production withCaruso, Destinn, Hempel and Amato.
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