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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Theatre, 1864. America heard it for thefirst time in 1867, when Santley sang it in Philadelphia at a perform-ance by the Caroline Richings Company. Le veau (Tor (The Calf of Gold) By Pol Plancon, Bass (In French) 81038 10-inch, $2.00By Marcel Journet, Bass (In French) 64036 10-inch, 1.00 We are now in the full bustle of the Fair Scene, where in frontof an inn a crowd of drinkers are listening to one of their number,Wagner, singing a somewhat coarse ditty concerning a rat. Mephisto-pheles breaks in upon the revelers, and offers to sing a song of hisown, The Song of the Golden Calf. After the diabolically sug-gestive introduction by the orchestra, with its semi-quavers anddescending chromatics, we hear the bold opening passage of thisanthem in praise of Mammon, of which the calf is symbolic. COPYT DUPONT JOURNET AS MEPHISTO *Double-Faced Record—See page 147. 128 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-GOUNODS FAUST Mephistopheles : Calf of Gold! aye in all the worldIncense at your fane they offer
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To your mightiness they proffer, From end to end of all the world. And in honor of the idol Kings and peoples everywhere To the sound of jingling coins Dance with zeal in festive circle, Round about the pedestal, Satan, he conducts the ball! Calf of Gold, strongest god below! To his temple overflowing Crowds before his vile shape bowing, As they strive in abject toil, As with souls debased they circle Round about the pedestal, Satan, he conducts the ball! Mephistopheles now proceeds to as-tonish the company by his feats of magic,first reading their palms and then draw-ing wine from the barrel of Bacchus—the inn sign perched up aloft—each mandrawing the wine he likes the best. Thescene which follows is a most dramatic Faust—Scene des Epees(Scene of the Swords) By Pasquale Amato, Baritone :Marcel Journet, Bass: andMetropolitan Opera Chorus(Giulio Setti, Director)(In French) 89055 12-inch, $4-00 By M. Vigneau, Baritone,and Chorus (In French) *69227 10-inch, .75 MEPHISTOPHELES AND F

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