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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2-inch, $1.25 The first act shows the deck of the ship which is conveying Isolde and Tristan to Cornwall, she having accepted King Mark's proposal, made through his nephew.

Both the Prelude and the Love Death were performed in concerts before the production of the opera in Munich. The Prelude was played for the first time at Prague, March 12,1859, and again at Leipzig, June 1, 1859. Wagner himself frequently conducted the Prelude and Love Death in the concerts given by him in 1863. The opera did not find its way to America until December 1, 1886, when the late Albert Niemann made his American debut as Tristan; and since that time it has grown steadily in popularity. This great drama of love and hatred, with its wonderful music, is now quite generally admitted to be the finest of the master's operas. Written at the time of Wagner's own love affair (with Mathilde Wesendonck), it is supposed that he sought to emphasize the fact that love cannot always be bound by conventions.

RENE DALMORES AS TRISTAN
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Isolde: So, this, then, is the end! Tristan, farewell! (Tristan and Isolde, Act I.) VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-TRISTAN AND ISOLDE During the voyage, however, the refusal of Tristan to see her, the exultation of the sailors over the killing of Morold (which freed Cornwall from its subjection to Isolde's royal father), and detestation of the loveless marriage she is about to contract, infuriate the Princess, and she resolves to die and drag Tristan down to death with her. She tells Tristan she is aware of his crime in killing her lover, and demands vengeance. He admits her right to kill him and offers his sword, but she bids her maid, Brangäne, prepare two cups of poison from her casket. Brangäne, unwilling to see her mistress die, secretly substitutes for the poison a love potion, the effect of which is immediate, and the lovers sink into each others arms just as the ship approaches the shore and the King arrives to claim his bride.

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