Opera Collection (page 5)

Advertisement, Thomas Harris, Opticians to the Royal Family
Advertisement, Thomas Harris & Son, Opticians to the Royal Family. 1841

The O Mara Opera Company
Promotional postcard for the O Mara Opera Company. Joseph O Mara (1864-1927) was an Irish opera singer, who ran his own company between 1912 and 1926

The interior of the Paris Opera showing Le Bal du Grand Prix (1925) Date: 1925

The Beggars Opera, Aldeburgh Festival 1963
English Opera Group production of The Beggars Opera (John Gay, in Brittens realization) at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 20 June 1963. Act III, near end; at Newgate Gaol

Ilya Repin Russian artist. (1884-1930) Sadko. 1876. Oil on canvas. Sadko (hero of a Russian fairy-tale), There is an opera on the subject by Rimsky-Korsakov (1896)

France, Paris, attic room, set design for act III in opera La boheme by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), La bohA

Maria Jeritza (1887 1982) Opera singer. Date: 1926

Dorothea Jordan - 1
DOROTHEA JORDAN (nee Bland) actress and mistress of William IV; as Priscilla Tomboy in The Romp a comic opera after Bickerstaffs Love in the city Date: 1762 - 1818

Giacomo Puccini (1858 -1924) Italian composer of operas. Poster for Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly)
529078 Giacomo Puccini (1858 -1924) Italian composer of operas. Poster for Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) an opera in three acts, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Luciano Pavarotti. Creator: Dan Springer
Luciano Pavarotti

Norma, opera by Vincenzo Bellini, sheet music cover (colour litho)
7149592 Norma, opera by Vincenzo Bellini, sheet music cover (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Norma, opera by Vincenzo Bellini)

Frontispiece of La gioconda, opera by Ponchielli, 1876
LRI4567478 Frontispiece of La gioconda, opera by Ponchielli, 1876 by Anonymous; Private Collection; (add.info.: Frontispice of the score for " La Gioconda" opera by composer Amilcare)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (b / w photo)
3637533 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Title page from the libretto of Handels opera Rinaldo, by Giacomo Rossi
5321233 Title page from the libretto of Handels opera Rinaldo, by Giacomo Rossi, 1717 (print) by English School, (18th century); height: 18 cm; Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum

Costume design for Basilio, from The Marriage of Figaro, 1905 (colour litho)
GIA938515 Costume design for Basilio, from The Marriage of Figaro, 1905 (colour litho) by Caramba, Luigi Sapelli (1865-1936); Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan, Italy; (add.info.: Le nozze di Figaro)

Elsie Kay, Maie Ash & Katleen Dawn, The Catch of the Season
Elsie Kay, Maie Ash and Kathleen Dawn in a wonderful publicity photograph for the popular comedy musical, The Catch of the Season at the Vaudeville Theatre

A series of vignettes illustrating the opera La Wally (lithography)
LRI4563337 A series of vignettes illustrating the opera La Wally (lithography) by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Vasco da Gama and Selika, from Giacomo Meyerbeers opera L Africaine (chromolitho)
1093475 Vasco da Gama and Selika, from Giacomo Meyerbeers opera L Africaine (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vasco da Gama and Selika)

The Opera, Paris, 1875-80 (litho)
992376 The Opera, Paris, 1875-80 (litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: L Opera. The Palais Garnier is a 1, 979-seat opera house)

Title page from the libretto of Handels opera Rinaldo, by Giacomo Rossi
5321234 Title page from the libretto of Handels opera Rinaldo, by Giacomo Rossi, 1717 (print) by English School, (18th century); height: 18 cm; Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum

Theatre National de l Opera, Grand bal de la Mi-Careme, 1921. Private Collection

Maria Callas with co stars Tito Gobbi and Meneto Cioni at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. 5th July 1965

Left to right are: Susan Moisey, Wendy Pashley and Katherine Flowers, who are appearing in the english Opera Group presentation of " La Rondine" at the Theatre Royal

The backcloth painted by scenic artist Alan Wood for the Newcastle Play Houses new stage setting of the Threepenny Opera on March 5, 1998

Madame Medori, ca. 1857. Creator: Mathew Brady
Madame Medori, ca. 1857

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Italy, Sicily, Palermo, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Massimo, Palermo Opera House

La Loge, 1874, (c1950). Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
La Loge, 1874, (c1950). La Loge (The Theatre Box): a couple watch a performance. Renoirs brother Edmond and Nini Lopez, a model from Montmartre known as Fish-face, posed for the picture

German Lithograph, 1900, drawing by Luigi Morgani with a scene from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet

Frank Castorfs Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth, 2013. Found in the Collection of Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth

Opera Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, 1902. Private Collection

Costume design for the Ballet Blue God by R. Hahn, 1911. Artist: Bakst, Leon (1866-1924)
Costume design for the Ballet Blue God by R. Hahn, 1911. Private Collection

Costume design for the ballet Daphnis et Chloe by M. Ravel, 1912. Artist: Bakst, Leon (1866-1924)
Costume design for the ballet Daphnis et Chloe by M. Ravel, 1912. Found in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Great Musicians - Plate X. c1880, (1895). Artist: F Jenkins Heliog
Great Musicians - Plate X. 1895. Portraits of classical musicians; Wilma Neruda, Lady Halle, (1838-1911), Charles Halle (1819-1895), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)

Masquerades and operas, 1724. Artist: William Hogarth
Masquerades and operas, 1724. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet The Death of the Rose by Gustav Mahler, 1974
Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet The Death of the Rose by Gustav Mahler

Alexander Vertinsky as Pierrot, 1918
Alexander Vertinsky as Pierrot

Music cover, Pas de Quatre, Faust Up To Date
Music cover, Pas de Quatre, invented and arranged by John d Auban from Faust Up To Date, a burlesque parody of Gounods opera Faust, performed at The Gaiety Theatre, London, composed by Meyer Lutz

Scene from the opera, Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini: Cio Cio Sans uncle, the Bonze, interrupts her marriage ceremony to Lieutenant Colonel F. B

Scene from the opera, Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi Date: c.1910

The Quinlan Opera Company
Promotional postcard for The Quinlan Opera Company. Billed as The Greatest Touring Company Ever Organized. Touring to the Royal Hippodrome, Liverpool, 2nd October 1911 Figures, left to right

WAGNER: TRISTAN & ISOLDE. Page one of the printed score for Richard Wagners Tristan and Isolde
WAGNER: TRISTAN & ISOLDE. Page one of the printed score for Richard Wagners " Tristan and Isolde, " completed in 1859 and first performed in 1865

D OYLY CARTE POSTER, c1894. Poster for Gilbert & Sullivans Utopia, Limited, as performed by D Oyly Cartes Opera Company. Lithograph poster, c1894

Australia-Opera-Birthday
A ferry sails pass the Sydney Opera House as balloons are released and fireworks are set off 01 October in Sydney. The world famous icon is celebrating its 25th birthday next Sunday 04 October with a

France, Paris, Costume sketch for Tosca in act II inopera tosca by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), " Tosca". Costume sketch for Tosca by Jacques Noel, act III, for a performance at Paris OpA

BELLINI, Vincenzo (1801-1835). Italian opera composer. Oil on canvas. ITALY. Bologna. Musical Bibliographical Museum

FERMAT, Pierre de (1601-1665). French lawyer, famous for his work in mathematics. Varia Opera Mathematica (1659). Title page. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: MIKADO. Sketches from The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivans new comic opera at the Savoy Theatre in London. Line engraving from an English newspaper of 1885

Members of the Royal Family at Covent Garden
A gala opera performance at Covent Garden is attended by the Queen and the President of Portugal (in the centre). To the left is the Queen Mother and behind her are Sir Anthony and Lady Eden

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