. 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 . ueen of Heaven, hallowd by thy presence, Let its holier, sweeter essence, Quelling evry lawless license, As above, so here prevail! All is ended, be now the forest Disencumberd of aught mortal. In the next scene Norma discovers that her husband loves Adalgisa, and in her rage shecontemplates killing her children; but her mothers heart conquers, and she resolves toyield her husband and children to Adalgisa and expiate her offences
. 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 . ueen of Heaven, hallowd by thy presence, Let its holier, sweeter essence, Quelling evry lawless license, As above, so here prevail! All is ended, be now the forest Disencumberd of aught mortal. In the next scene Norma discovers that her husband loves Adalgisa, and in her rage shecontemplates killing her children; but her mothers heart conquers, and she resolves toyield her husband and children to Adalgisa and expiate her offences on the funeral pleads with her, urging her to abandon her purpose, and offers to send Pollioneback to her. * Double-Faced Record—See page 341. 340 VICTOR BOOK OF THE OPERA-BELLINIS NORMA This scene is expressed in the Hear Me, Norma, familiar to every music-lover. Mira o Norma (Hear Me, Norma) By Alma Gluck, Soprano, and Louise Homer, Contralto {In Italian) 8857b 12-inch, $ By Ida Giacomelli, Soprano,and Lina Mileri, Contralto {In Italian) * 62101 10-inch, By Francis Lapitino, Harpist * 17929 10-inch, By Arthur Pryors Band * 16323 10-inch,. . GRISI AS NORMA Adalgisa: Dearest Norma, before thee kneeling,View these darlings, thy precious treasures;Let that sunbeam, a mothers feeling,Break the night around thy soul. Norma: Wouldst win that soul, by this entreatingBack to earths delusive pleasures, •From the phantoms, far more fleeting,Which in deaths deep ocean shoal? Adalgisa: Ah, be persuaded. Norma: Deceive me not, his passion— Adalgisa: Dies in repentance. Norma: And thine? Adalgisa: In friendship. My love for himNow wears a more befitting sentence. Pollione refuses to return to Norma and attempts to seize Adalgisa against her will. Normafoils this attempt and reasons with him, telling him he must give up his guilty love or die. In mia mano (In My Grasp) By Ida Giacomelli, Soprano, and Gino Martinez-Patti, Tenor {In Italian) * 68309 12-inch, $1
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