. 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 . VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —VERDIS RIGOLETTO. SAMMARCO AS RIGOLETTO Rigoletto: Yon assassin is my equal— He stabs in darkness, While I with a tongue of malice Stab men by daylight! (He thinks of Monterones curse.) He laid a fathers curse on me. . {Continuing in a burst of rage.) Oh hideous fate! Cruel nature! Thou hast doomd me to a life of torment. I must jest, I must laugh, And be their laughing stock! Yonder the Duke, my maste
. 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 . VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA —VERDIS RIGOLETTO. SAMMARCO AS RIGOLETTO Rigoletto: Yon assassin is my equal— He stabs in darkness, While I with a tongue of malice Stab men by daylight! (He thinks of Monterones curse.) He laid a fathers curse on me. . {Continuing in a burst of rage.) Oh hideous fate! Cruel nature! Thou hast doomd me to a life of torment. I must jest, I must laugh, And be their laughing stock! Yonder the Duke, my master, Youthful and brilliant, rich and handsome, Tells me, between sleeping and waking: Come, buffoon, I would laugh now! Oh shame, I must obey him! Oh life accursed! How I hate ye, Race of vile and fawning courtiers! Tis my only joy to taunt ye! For if I am vile, tis to your vice I owe it! {He thinks of his home and daughter.) In that blest abode my nature changes! {Again he remembers the curse.) How heavy was that old mans curse! Still I hear it; tis ringing in my ears! My soul is troubled—fear I some misfortune? Ah, no, this is folly! The jester enters the court-yard and is affectionately greeted
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