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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photo white THE TND1AN FOREST ACT III (French) LAKME (Lak-may) OPERA IN THREE ACTSBook by Goudinet and Gille, taken from the story, Le Manage de Loii. Music by LeoDelibes (Deh-leeb). First production Paris, April 14, 1883. First London production atthe Gaiety Theatre, June 6, 1885. First American performance in 1883, by the Emma AbbotOpera Company, a version that can hardly be taken seriously. First adequate productionMarch I, 1886, at the Academy of Music, by the American Opera Company, under TheodoreThomas, with Pauline LAllemand in the title role. Produced at the Metropolitan OperaHouse, April 2, 1890, with Patti; and again on April 22, 1892, with Marie van Zandt andde Reszke. Revived in 1906 for Sembrich; in 1910 by the Chicago Opera Company, forTetrazzini, and in 1916 at the Metropolitan, with Barrientos, Martinelli and de Luca. Characters GERALD, ) _ . , „ . . , . . .. (Tenor r- „~„ .„ r officers of the British army in India < _. . FREDERIC, I I Baritone NlLAKANTHA, a

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