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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes |
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| Meyerbeer: LES HUGUENOTS |
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| Band 4 |
Act IV: Bénédiction des poignards excerpt : "[Ana]thème sur eux!" ... "entre vos mains j'enga[ge]"
Marcel Journet (bs), St. Bris
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra--
Phillippe Flon
February 24, 1902
[Slip: "good Huguenots"; Glackens 89.]
In the next scene, the Catholics have planned a wholesale massacre of the Huguenots and their leaders. Three monks are present to bless their swords, and the company swears allegiance to the cause. These two cylinders overlap slightly; the chorus is clearly singing in Italian (the Ricordi translation), as presumably are the two basses, though their few lines are not clear enough to be certain of this.
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