Victor records (1929)

" VICTOR RECORDS [tombe CARMEN (Bizet) (Sung in French unless otherwise noted) 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, be% trothed to Micaela, a peasant girl in| his native village, is quartered at Seville near a factory where Carmen, a reckless and beautiful cigarette girl, stabs a fellow-employee, and is arrested by Jose. She manages to} fascinate him, and makes her escape. ee Mes Jose is imprisoned for neglect of duty, Victrola Book of the Opera but when released follows the gypsy DON JOSE AND CARMEN to Pastia’s Inn, where he finds Escamillo, a Toreador, and Zuniga, his captain, 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. ose 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 — fF fe iy ACT I—pus.Lic sQUARE IN SEVILLE ‘* Prelude—Philadelphia Orch. and March of the Caucasian Chief—Phila. Orch| 796\10)1.50 Habanera (Love is Like a Wood Bird) French and Chanson Bohéme—Jeritza| 8091)\12\2.50 Habanera (Love is Like a Wood Bird) and Seguidilla—d’ Alvarez| 1145/10}1.50 * Habanera /n /talian and Favorita—O mio Fernando—Besanzoni| §047/12|2.00 Seguidilla (Near the Walls of Seville) and Habanera—d’ Alvarez} 1145}|10|1.50 Seguidilla Jn French and Carmen—En vain pour eviter—Gordon| 1102/10/1.50 Fantasie—Part I and Part I11—Marek Weber's Orchestra|68907|12|1.25 ACT II—rTAVERN OF LILLAS PASTIA Chanson Bohéme (Les tringles de sistres) and Habanera—Jeritza| 8091) | * Toreador Song—Amato /n Italian and Masked Ball—Eri tu—Amato| 6040! | Air de la Fleur (Flower Song) and Louise—Depuis lontemps—Edward Johnson| 9293/1 ACT III—a MounTAIN CAMP Card Song—En vain pour éviter (In Vain to Shun) and Seguidilla—Gordon| 1102}! MISCELLANEOUS CARMEN RECORDS Selection—Part I and Part II r Creatore’s Band/35841)|! Selection—Part III and IV Creatore’s Band|35842/I Carmen Suite (Bizet) Gypsy Dance (Act 2) and Intermezzo to Act 3—Stokowski—Phila. Orch| 6873)\ Habanera (Act 4) and Prelude to Act 1—StokowskiPhiladelphia Orch| 1356)| Intermezzo to Act 3 and Les Dragons d’Alcala and Gypsy Dance—Phila. Or| 6873 | I — Wn March of the Smugglers (Act 3) and Soldiers Changing the Guard—Phila. Orch| 6874 Prelude to Act | and Habanera (Act 4) Stokowski-Philadelphia Orchestra| 1356 Soldiers Changing the Guard (Act 1) and March of the Smugglers—Phila. Orch| 6874 ee ooo! Waltz (Walton-Wilson) Dusolina Ss My Mother (Galland-Marsden) Dusolina Giannini Carneval Overture (Dvorak) Album M-40 See Musical Masterpieces aeyeera! Overture—Part 1 (Dvorak) Chicago Symphony oe Carneval Overture—Part 2 (Dvo¥ak, Op. 92) Chicago Symphony Orch 3 ecnive’ of Venice—Part 1 (Arban) (with variations) /tal. Dal Monkey Carnival of Venice—Part 2 (with variations) In Italian Dal Monte ROS ha hy a ein: wn oOuncownd hh o oooooo 1287) 6560) | 2|2.00 6614/12|2.00 * Indicates old acoustical method of recording.