English: Franchetti - Germania, act II - Cellar scene
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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FRANCHETTI PLAYING HIS SCORE TO D ANNUNZIO
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CELLAR SCENE ACT II 17<3 (Italian) LA GIOCONDA (Lah Joh-kon-dah) OPERA IN FOUR ACTS Libretto by Arrigo Boito; an adaptation of Victor Hugos drama, Angelo. Music byAmilcare Ponchielli. First presented at La Scala, Milan, April 8, 1876. Rewritten by Boitoand given at Genoa, December, 1876, and the following February at La Scala. First Londonproduction, June 7, 1883. Given m Petrograd. January 30, 1883; in Vienna, April 28, 1883;in France, at Nice, December 29, 1886. First New York pro-duction, December 20, 1883, with Nilsson, Scalchi, Fursch-Madi, del Puente and Novara. Revived at the MetropolitanOpera House, New York, December 25, 1913. Characters LA GIOCONDA, a ballad singer Soprano LA ClECA, (See-ay-kah) her blind mother Contralto ALVISE, (Al-oee-zeh) one of the heads of State Inquisition . . Bass LAURA, his wife Mezzo-Soprano ENZO GRIMALDO, a Genoese noble Tenor BARNABA, a spy of the Inquisition Baritone ZUANE, a boatman Bass ISEPO, public letter-writer Tenor A Pilot Bass Monks,
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