Catalogue of Victor Records (1930)

VICTOR RECORDS Number 3/3 CARMEN (Bizet) Text by Meilhac and_ Halévy, founded on Mérimée’s novel. Music by Bizet. First production, Paris, 1875; London, 1878; New York, 1879, with Minnie Hauk. Some notable revivals, 1893, Calvé’s first appearance; 1905, with Caruso; and Hammerstein’s revival, 1906, with BresslerGianoli and Dalmores. Don Jose, a young brigadier, betrothed to Micaela, a peasant girl in Fe his native village, is quarteredat | Seville near a factory where Carmen, a reckless and beautiful cigarette girl, By stabs a fellow-employee, and is arrested by Jose. She manages to fascinate him, and makes her escape. Jose is imprisoned for neglect of duty, fe but when released follows the gypsy DON JOSE AND CARMEN to Pastia’s Inn, where he finds Zuniga, his captain, and Escamillo, a Toreador, both paying court to Carmen. Stung with jealousy he deserts, and follows the band of smugglers Carmen has joined. The next act shows the smugglers’ camp, and Carmen, already tired of her soldier welcomes the Toreador, who has followed her. Jose is about to kill her when Micaela arrives with a summons from his dying mother. He goes, but threatens vengeance. In the last act Jose, half crazed with jealousy, kills Carmen outside the bull ring, where she is awaiting the triumphant Escamillo. See Victrola Book of the Opera CARMEN—Complete Opera in Album with Libretto Famous Artists and Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, Paris Album M-61 (9540-9556), AM-61 (9557-9573). List Price $25.50. Other Carmen Records ACT I—pusLic sQUARE IN SEVILLE Habanera (Love is Like a Wood Bird) French and Chanson Bohéme—Jeritza| 8091 Habanera (Love is Like a Wood Bird) and Seguidilla—d’ Alvarez) 1145 Seguidilla (Near the Walls of Seville) and Habanera—d’ Alvarez| 1145 ACT II—rTaAVERN_OF LILLAS PASTIA Chanson Bohéme (Les tringles de sistres) and Habanera—Jeritza| 8091 | Toreador Song (Chanson du Toréador) and Tosca—Te Deum—Tibbett with Metropolitan Opera Chorus| 8124 oon wn Oo 2.50 2.50 NWNNHNHKK__ W& ND 2 Oo l * Toreador Song—Amato_ In Italian and Masked Ball—Eri tu—Amato| 6040|12|2 00 Il for che avevi a me (Flower Song) and 7 osca—E lucevan—Zenatello| 6961)}12)2. * Il fior che avevi a me (Flower Song) Jn Italian and Africana—Caruso| 6007 12/2.00, * Air de la fleur (Flower Song) Caruso and Faust—Salut—Caruso| 6004 ! 2.00 Air de la Fleur (Flower Song) and Louise—Depuis lontemps—Edward Johnson) 9293 MISCELLANEOUS CARMEN RECORDS Fantasie—Part I and Part I1I—Marek Weber's Orchestra|68907)|12|1.25 Selection—Part I and Part II Creatore’s Band|35841|12|!.25 Selection—Part III and IV Creatore’s Band|35842)12|1.25 Carmen Suite (Bizet) Gypsy Dance (Act 2) and Intermezzo to Act 3—Stokowski+Phila. Orch| 6873 12|2.00 Aragonaise (Act 4) and Prelude to Act 1 —StokowskiPhiladelphia Orch\ 1356)|10\1.50 Intermezzo to Act 3 and Les Dragons d’Alcala and Gypsy Dance—Phila. Or| 6873|12\2.00 March of the Smugglers (Act 3) and Soldiers Changing the Guard—Phila. Orch| 6874 12|2.00 Prelude to Act | and Aragonaise (Act 4) StokowskiPhiladelphia Orchestra| 1356|10|1.50 Soldiers Changing the Guard (Act |) and March of the Smugglers— Phila. Orch| 6874 12|2.00 Ce Sylva—waltz (Ivanovici) International Novelty ore 359841 12/1.25 Eva Waltzes (from the Operetta “‘Eva’’) (Lehar-Schott) Int’! Novelty Orch : Carneval Overture (Dvorak) Album M-40 See Musical Masterpieces) xIndicates old acoustical method of recording.