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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TES OF PENZANCE OR THE SLAVE OF DUTY COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS Text by Sir W. S. Gilbert; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. The first performance onany stage took place in New York, December 31, 1879, under the immediate supervision olMr. Sullivan and Mr. Gilbert, the cast including J. H. Ryley, Signor Brocolini, Hugh Talbot,Frederic Clifton, Blanche Roosevelt and Alice Barnett. Produced at the Opera Comique,London, April 3, 1880. Revived June 3, 1912, by Messrs. Shubert and W. A. Brady, withEugene Cowles, Arthur Aldridge, George MacFarlane, De Wolf Hopper, Blanche Dumeldand Josephine Jacoby. Characters MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY Baritone PIRATE KING Bass SAMUEL, his lieutenant Tenor FREDERIC, the pirate apprentice Tenor SERGEANT OF POLICE Bass MABEL) kTATF (General Stanleys daughters Sopranos Isabel J RUTH, a pirate maid-of-all-work Contralto Pirates, Police, etc. Time and Place : The scene is laid on the coast of Cornwall; time, the present. VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
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DE WOLF HOPPER AS THE SERGEANT OF POLICE The Pirates, as it is familiarly called, isone of the very few operas of note to haveits first production in America. This unusualstep was taken to protect the rights of thecomposers and publishers in American rep-resentations of the work. The first act was written and the entireopera scored in this country, and the workwas not published until after Messrs. Gilbertand Sullivan had returned to England. Thisprevented the work from being virtuallystolen, as was Pinafore, the authors havingbeen cheated out of their royalties on thatopera because of the many unauthorizedversions. Gilberts delightfully whimsical storytells of Frederic, apprenticed when a child tothe Pirates of Penzance, who were very gentlewith orphans for the reason that they them-selves were orphans! ACT I The Pirates are celebrating the twenty-first birthday of Frederic, who, tiring of apiratical career, is about to leave them toseek another occupation. Ruth, a femalepirate, begs

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