Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia - The shaving scene - The Victrola book of the opera
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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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THE COUNT GIVES ROSINA A MUSIC LESSON * Double-Faced Record—See page 38. 30 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—BARBER OF SEVILLE
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THE SHAVING SCENE II vecchietto cerca moglie (The Old Fool Seeks a Wife) By Emma Zaccaria (In Italian) *62105 10-inch, $0.75 What kind of thing is this love which drives everybody crazy ? she asks. This air used to be called in Rome Aria di sorbetto (sher-bet), because the audience used to eat ices while it was being sung! Bertha: There is always noise and clamor in this house! There isnothing hut disputing, weeping and threatening. There is not a single hourof peace with this old, avaricious wrangler! Oh! what a house of con-fusion! The little old man seeks a wife; the girl sighs for a husband; theone is all eagerness, the other a dotard. Neither of them should be suf-fered to go loose; but what can this love be that makes everyone go mad?It is a universal evil, a fury, a thing that tickles, that pesters, that tor-ments! Unhappy that I am, I also feel it, and know not what remedy toseek. Ah, cursed old age! I am despised by all; and furious and desperate,I feel ready to die with chag
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Il barbiere di SivigliaIl barbiere di Siviglia ist eine Opera buffa in zwei Akten von Gioachino Rossini. Das Libretto stammt von Cesare Sterbini auf Grundlage des Schauspiels Le barbier de Séville von Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. .. weiterlesen