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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OTTO GORITZAS HANS SACHS 315
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WALTER S TRIAL ACT I VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —THE MASTERSINGERS lous Beckmesser; and theyouthful frolics of Daoid—allare surrounded by some ofthe most glorious musicimaginable. The first act opens inSt. Catherines Church atNuremberg, where Eva,daughter of the wealthy gold-smith Pogner, and Walter, ayoung knight, meet and fall inlove. When Walter learns thatEvas hand has been promisedby her father to the winnerof the song contest, he re-solves to compete, and remainsfor the examination beforethe meeting of Master-singers. Beckmesser, who alsowishes to marry Eva, is chosenmarker, and under the rigidrules of the order gives Walter so many bad marks that he is rejected in spite of the influ-ence of Hans Sachs in his favor. Act II shows a street, with the houses of Hans Sachs and Pogner on opposite sides. Theapprentices, who are putting up the shutters, plague David on his affection for Magdalena,Evas nurse. Sachs drives them away and sends David to bed, then sits down in hisdoorway

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