Puccini - Tosca - Mario Sammarco as Scarpia - The Victrola book of the opera

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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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ng Toscas voice in theapartments of the Queen below, where she is singing at a soiree,he sends her a note saying he has news of her lover. He iscertain she will come for Marios sake, and sure that his planswill succeed. He then sings his celebrated soliloquy. Scarpialoves such a conquest as this—no tender vows in the moonlightfor him! He prefers taking what he desires by force, then whenwearied he is ready for further conquest. This, in short, is hiscreed—God has created divers wines and many types of beauty—he prefers to enjoy as many of them as possible! Mario is brought in by the police.who report that Angelotti can-furious, and tries to force Mario to reveal the hiding place ofthe fugitive; but he refuses to speak, and is ordered into the torture chamber adjoining.Tosca comes in answer to Scarpias summons and is told that Mario is being tortured intoa confession. Unable to bear the sound of his groans, she reveals the hiding place of * Double-Faced Record—See page 498. 491
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SAM MARCO AS SCARPIA not be found. Scarpia is VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-PUCCINIS TOSCA

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