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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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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Characters UST LEAVING HIS STUDIO ACT MEFISTOFELE Bass FAUST Tenor Margaret Soprano MARTHA Contralto WAGNER Tenor HELEN Soprano PANTALIS Contralto NEREUS Tenor Celestial Phalanxes, Mystic Choir,Cherubs, Penitents, Wayfarers, Men-at-arms, Huntsmen, Students, Citi-zens, Populace, Townsmen,Witches, Wizards, Greek Chorus,Sirens, Naiads, Dancers, Warriors. 310 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—BOITOS MEFISTOFELE Arrigo Boito well deserves a conspicuous place among the great modern composers. HisMefistofele ranks with the masterpieces of modern Italy, and contains scenes of great beauty,notably the Garden Scene, with its lovely music, and the Prison Scene, in which the pathos ofthe demented Margarets wanderings, the beautiful duet and the frenzy of the finale arepictured by a master hand. The story of Boitos opera is directly drawn from Goethes Faust, but the composer haschosen episodes from the whole of Goethes story, not confining himself to the tale ofGretchen, but including the episode of He

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