Opera Collection (page 6)

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

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

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

Beggars Opera / Hogarth
a burlesqued version of John Gays opera: several of the characters are wearing animal heads Date: 18th century

Mme Adelina Patti
ADELINA PATTI American operatic soprano born in Madrid of Italian parentage. Sang roles in operas of Bellini, Rossini and Gounod

Les Filles Jackson et Cie operetta poster
Poster advertising the operetta " Les Filles Jackson et Cie" composed by J. Clerice, showing a scene with a lady halfway up a ships netting much to the astonishment of more conservative

Clara Butt / Bassano
CLARA BUTT Opera singer (contralto)

Richard Tauber / 1928
RICHARD TAUBER Austrian opera singer in the role of Don Ottavio in Mozarts Don Giovanni, performed at Berlin and Vienna

Tamino and Pamina
Guided and protected by the magic flute, Tamino and Pamina emerge unscathed from the ordeal of fire and water, and all will now be well for them

Berlioz Faust Liebig 5
The damnation of Faust : he falls into Hell, while Mephistopheles and his demons celebrate another victory

Faust - Liebig - 4
FAUST Faust fights Marguerites brother Valentin, and Mephistopheles directs a fatal stroke

Siegfried Forges Notung
Instructed by Mime, Siegfried forges the magic sword Notung with which he will slay the dragon Fafner

Strauss / Rosenkavalier / 6
ROSENKAVALIER the Princess of Werdenberg unites Count Octavian and Sophie von Faninal

Maypole Soap

Opera Parsifal by Wagner, 1903 (poster)
GIA4769173 Opera Parsifal by Wagner, 1903 (poster) by Palanti, Giuseppe (1881-1946); Private Collection; (add.info.: Poster of Parsifal by Richard Wagner directed by G)

Costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade (colour litho)
6030985 Costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade (colour litho) by Bakst, Leon (1866-1924) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Turandot (colour litho)
3099475 Turandot (colour litho) by Brunelleschi, Umberto (1879-1949); Private Collection; (add.info.: Turandot. Music cover.); © Look and Learn; Italian, out of copyright

Claudio Monteverdis opera Orpheus (engraving)
7149743 Claudio Monteverdis opera Orpheus (engraving) by Italian School, (17th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Italian compser Claudio Monteverdis opera Orpheus)

Poster for "Madame Butterfly "and child with American flag
LSE4093280 Poster for " Madame Butterfly " and child with American flag, poster for the opera by Giacomo Puccini, n.d. deb. 20th S.Ricordi editore

Premiere Poster for the opera Cherubin by Jules Massenet, 1905. Private Collection

"Le roi"costume de Leon Bakst pour le ballet "
FIA5396871 " Le roi" costume de Leon Bakst pour le ballet " La belle au bois dormant de Piotr Tchaikovski (1840-1893) (The king)

Les Cloches de Corneville, French comic opera in English, Theatre Royal, Plymouth Date: early 20th century

Brunnhilde throws herself into Siegfrieds arms, illustration from
STC324259 Brunnhilde throws herself into Siegfrieds arms, illustration from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods, 1924 (colour litho) by Rackham

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) (b / w photo)
CHT214717 Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) (b/w photo) by Italian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; eArchives Charmet; Italian, out of copyright

An art-deco scene from an opera box, Germany, 1924
An art-deco scene from an opera box, with glamorous 1920s partygoers, Germany, 1924 Date: 1924

Programme cover, The Opera House, Manchester. 1937

Poster, Gilbert and Sullivans operetta, Patience
Theatre poster, Gilbert and Sullivans comic operetta, Patience, showing the title character, a dairymaid

Scene from Wagners opera Tannhauser. late 19th century

Scene from Richard Wagners opera, Tannhauser (colour litho)
3641279 Scene from Richard Wagners opera, Tannhauser (colour litho) by Wichera, Raimund Ritter Von Brennerstein (Raimund Wichera) (1862-1925); Private Collection; (add.info)

"Romeo et Juliet"Scene from "Romeo and Juliette"
LRI557711 " Romeo et Juliet" Scene from " Romeo and Juliette" opera by Charles Gounod (1818-1893). c.1880

Poster by Hohenstein. "La Tosca"by Giacomo Puccini
LSE4107509 Poster by Hohenstein. " La Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini, based on the drama of V. Sardou. by Hohenstein, Adolfo (1854-1928); Private Collection; (add.info.: Poster by Hohenstein)

Sheet music page for the opera Mithridate by Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1706)
LRI4562789 Sheet music page for the opera Mithridate by Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1706) by Unknown artist, (18th century); Biblioteca del Conservatorio G

The Duenna & Little Isaac, April 1, 1784. Creator: William Paulet Carey
The Duenna & Little Isaac, April 1, 1784

MOZART, COSI POSTER
Poster for a performance of Cosi fan tutte at the Koenigliches Hoftheater, Dresden-Altstadt on the 10 December 1891 Date: 1891

Les Choristes (The Chorus Singers), 1877. Creator: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Les Choristes (The Chorus Singers), 1877. Found in the Collection of Musee d Orsay, Paris

Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann and Margot Fonteyn
Ballet dancers Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried and Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) in the role of Odette in the finale of Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House

England, London, Covent Garden, The Royal Opera House

Mask on vine leaves and bunches of grapes, 1st H. 1st cen. AD. Found in the Collection of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Hamblings Scallop, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK, 25 / 5 / 10. Creator: Ethel Davies
Scallop (2003) by Maggi Hambling (b1945), Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The sculpture celebrates the composer Benjamin Britten who lived locally. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK

Scene from the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, 1900. Found in the Collection of State P. Tchaikovsky Memorial Museum, Klin

I flee for the first time and am pursued, 1910. Artist: Arthur Rackham
I flee for the first time and am pursued, 1910. I flee for the first time and am pursued: Warfather follows close. He nears, he nears, in fury! Save this woman! Sisters, your help!

Headgear designed for Ida Rubinstein in the ballet Scheharazade, 1910. Found in the collection of Bibliotheque-Musee de l Opera Garnier, Paris

Opera Lakme by Leo Delibes in the Theatre national de l opera-comique, 1883. Found in the collection of Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Amalie Materna (1844-1918) as Brunnhilde in Opera Der Ring des Nibelungen by R. Wagner, 1876. Private Collection

Don Carlos. Costume design for the opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, 1845. Found in the collection of Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Costume design for the ballet Scheharazade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Private Collection

Ballerina Anna Pavlova as The Swan. Private Collection

Curtain design for the Theatre in Krakow. Found in the Collection of Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw

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