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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VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-WAGNERS PARSIFAL
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COPYT PACH BROS., H. GURNEMANZ AND THE NOVICES ACT I ACT I SCENE—A Forest Near MonsalvatThe rise of the curtain shows Gurnemanz, a veteran Knight, with two novices, asleep.Trumpet calls from the Castle awaken them, and they join in prayer, afterward preparingthe bath with which Amfortas seeks to heal his wound. Messengers from the Castle reportthat the latest balm which he had tried failed to bring relief. Gurnemanz is much grieved,and sinks down in dejection, until he is roused by the approach of Kundry, who comes inhurriedly, dressed in sombre garments and in her normal mind, but exhausted with fatigue.She brings a new remedy which she had sought in distant Arabia. When Amfortas arriveswith his train for a bath in the sacred lake, the new balm is offered to him. He accepts andthanks the strange-looking woman for her kindness. When the procession departs thenovices attack Kundry, calling her a sorceress, but she is defended by Gurnemanz, who saysshe is devoted to the King but is su

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