Opera Collection (page 3)

D Oyly Cartes Opera Co. in Utopia, limited Gilbert & Sullivans new opera. Date c1894

Coliseum, London
The London Coliseum, on St Martins Lane, London, now the home of English National Opera (ENO). The memorial statue to Edith Cavell is in the foreground left. Date: 1947

Richard Tauber / Schubert
RICHARD TAUBER Austrian opera singer based in Britain, in the role of the composer Franz Schubert in Blossom Time

Magic Flute Liebig 6
(The Magic Flute) Act 2 scene 27 : the old hag is transformed into Papagena, who immediately captivates Papageno, and they, too, live happily ever after

Masses Paul Et Virginie
PAUL ET VIRGINIE Its surprising that more composers haven t had a go at this idiotic story with its ludicrously dramatic plot and splendidly unhappy ending

Social / Royal Opera Gala
A gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the King and Queen in the Royal Box

Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868), Italian composer, best known for his operas

Advert for Soiree perfume as used by Lilan Davies, the opera singer, 1926 Date: 1926

Garnier Opera House, Paris
Antique illustration of a Garnier Opera House, Paris

RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883). German composer. Photographed c1868 at his villa, Triebschen, near Lucerne, Switzerland

Opera / Paris / 1905 / Inside
The main staircase of the Paris Opera House called l escalier d Honneur. Date: circa 1900

Verdi Last Photo
GIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer: the last photograph taken of him

ADELINA PATTI 1843-1919
ADELINA PATTI American operatic soprano born in Madrid of Italian parentage. Sang roles in operas of Bellini, Rossini and Gounod

Tristan & Isolde
TRISTAN & ISOLDE The lovers rapture

Opera and Chamber of Commerce, Lille, Nord, France, Europe

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England, UK

The Opera at night, Vienna, Austria, Europe

Maggie Teyte / Theatre 07
MAGGIE TEYTE (Maggie Tate) English operatic soprano, seen here in the role of Glycere in Circe at the Opera Comique, Paris

Verdi / Rigoletto / Liebig
The celebrated quartet from the last act

Turandot Liebig 2
Ping, Pang and Pong, three courtiers

Massenet / Thais / First
Sybil Sanderson and Charles Delmas in the first production of this opera which tells of an Egyptian courtesan who converts to religion and dies as a desert hermit

Siegfried and Fafner
Siegfried confronts Fafner, who has taken on the shape of a dragon while he protects his hoard of treasure

USA / Met Opera / Back View
NEW YORK back view of the newly built theatre, on Seventh Avenue

Giacomo Puccini
GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian opera composer in middle age

Caruso as Pinkerton
Signed self-caricature by the opera singer Enrico Caruso : Caruso as Lieutenant Pinkerton

Verdi conducts Aida
Giuseppe Verdi conducts his Aida at the Paris Opera, 1880

The Opera House, Paris, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Ravens of Wotan

Giuseppe Verdi Ackermann
GIUSEPPE VERDI Italian opera composer

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini
The lead character, Cio-Cio San (Madame Butterfly) in Puccinis opera in three acts. Date: c.1910

Metropolitan Opera House, New York City
Metropolitan Opera House on Broadway and 39th Street with the New York Times Building and the Hotel Astor, New York City, America

Blanche Bates / Butterfly
Blanche Bates in the stage play Madam Butterfly by Long & Belasco on which the opera is based

Donizetti / Induno
GAETANO DONIZETTI Italian opera composer

Luisa Tetrazzini / Signed
LUISA TETRAZZINI Italian opera singer in 1909

Chaliapin / Don Quixote
FYODOR IVANOVICH CHALIAPIN Russian opera singer as Don Quichotte (Don Quixote)

Mozart / Nozze / Buchel
(The Marriage of Figaro) Susanna helps Cherubino escape

Vienna / Opera House C1930
Vienna: the Opera House (State Opera)

Parsifal - Liebig 6
Act three : Parsifal heals Amfortas with the sacred Spear

Opera Quadrilles 19C
Solos and duets from four operas: Lucrezia Borgia and Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Norma and La Sonnambula (Bellini)

Costume design for the play "Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter" in the Proletcult Theatre, 1922. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Costume design for the play "Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter" in the Proletcult Theatre, 1922. Found in the collection of the State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

DEBUSSY, Claude (1862-1918). French composer. Autographed score from the first act of the opera Pelleas and Melisande

Portrait of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), 1894. Found in the collection of Regional Museum of Fine and Applied Art, Smolensk

The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816

Valkyrie (1st Act): Sieglinde and her brother Siegmund. Private Collection

DER ROSENKAVALIER Octavian presents the Silver Rose to Sophie in Act II: from the Covent Garden production with Delia Reinhardt and Elizabeth Schumann Date: 6 June 1925

Set design for the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1. 10. 1884, 1884
Set design for the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1.10.1884, 1884. Found in the collection of Museo Teatrale alla Scala

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