Franchetti playing his score to d'Annunzio - The Victrola book of the opera

Franchetti playing his score to d'Annunzio

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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th a violent blow in the face, atwhich Worms decides to fight him, andpreparations for the duel are begun. Theyare interrupted by the entrance of QueenLouise, who suggests that such brave menhad better be using their swords for theircountry. Fired with enthusiasm, theenemies embrace each other and swear todie for Germany. EPILOGUE SCENE— The Battlefield of LeipzigThe awful three days conflict is overand the field is a mass of ruins, battered wheels and dead and wounded men. Rickesearches for the body of Federico that she may look upon his face once more. She findshim dying, but he recognizes her, and telling her that the body of Worms is nearby, asksher to forgive him as he himself has done. Ricke looks on the face of the man who hadruined her life and forgives him. She returns to her husband and when he dies in her arms waits beside his body forher own death, which she feels approaching. As the sun sets the defeated Napoleon withthe shattered remains of his army is seen retreating.

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FRANCHETTI PLAYING HIS SCORE TO D ANNUNZIO

Alberto Franchetti gabriele d annunzio Victrola Buch der Oper Buchillustrationen Oper napoleonische Kriege Frankreich Weltkrieg Bilder aus dem Internetarchiv

1917

Harold B. Lee Library

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