Opera Collection (page 7)

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

Portrait of the singer and composer Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), 1840s. Found in the collection of I. Turgenev Memorial Museum, Moscow

Special issue of the periodical Illustrazione Italiana, dedicated to the premiere of Otello, 1887. Found in the collection of Museo Teatrale alla Scala

Phaedra. Costume design for the drama Hippolytus by Euripides, 1902. Artist: Bakst, Leon (1866-1924)
Phaedra. Costume design for the drama Hippolytus by Euripides, 1902. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Odessa

Music cover, The Torpedo Galop, by Charles d Albert, based on music from Edmond Audrans comic opera, Olivette. 1880

Caruso / Anon Postcard
Enrico Caruso ((1873 - 1921), Italian operatic tenor

Emma Calvet (1858 - 1942), French opera singer

Old Vic threatre
The Victoria Theatre, better known as the Old Vic : at this time dedicated to performances of Shakespeare, and of opera in english. Date: circa 1930

Aida by Verdi
AIDA the triumph of Rhadames, Act 2: first Paris performance, at the Paris Opera Date: 1880

La Scala
circa 1930: La Scala Opera House in Milan, originally built in 1776. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

GIOVANNI BATTISTA RUBINI (1795-1854). Italian operatic tenor. Rubini in the role of Arturo in I Puritani, by Vincenzo Bellini. French lithograph, mid-19th century

WAGNER: TRISTAN & ISOLDE. Page one of the orchestral sketch for Act III of Tristan & Isolde, by Richard Wagner, 1859

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

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791). Austrian composer. Mozart rehearsing with German soprano, Caterina Cavalieri (1755-1801). Line engraving

Verdi Falstaff Paris
GIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer rehearsing Falstaff at Paris in 1894 Date: 1813-1901

THE NORNS
Prelude : the three Norns

Emmy Destinn / Carmen
EMMY DESTINN Czech opera singer as Carmen

PAGANINI (1831)
NICCOLO PAGANINI Italian musician, at the Royal Opera House, London, 3 June 1831

CERUTTI
TERESA CERUTTI Italian singer, as Salome in Strausss opera

Lucia - the Sextet
The sextet in Act Two, considered by some (including me) to be one of the finest moments in opera

Australia, New South Wales, Opera House and Harbor Bridge at sunset; Sydney

Richard Strauss (1854-1949). German composer of the late Romantic. Portrait. Photo. Colored

Covent Garden Advert
A stall at Covent Garden would cost you a guinea in the 1880s, (say x 100 today) showing that opera-going has always been an expensive, elitist affair. Date: circa 1880

Gladys Swarthout (1900 - 1969), American opera singer who also appeared in films

Racial Type / Lady Tatters
LADY TATTERS We know nothing about this romantic light opera except for this splendid Hassall poster : looks as though it might be like My fair lady. Date: 1907

Emma Eames - American opera singer
Emma Eames (1865-1952), American opera singer (soprano) performed in Europe and America from 1889 to 1916. Date: 1890

Lilian Norton Nordica - American opera singer
Lilian Norton Nordica (1857-1914), American opera singer (soprano) at the piano. Date: 1890

Design Magic Flute Hall Stars Palace Queen Night
Artokoloro

Manuscript page from the score of Les Huguenots
XOT366590 Manuscript page from the score of Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1791-1864); Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana, Vicenza

VERDI: ERNANI, 1844. Autograph manuscript of an aria with chorus from Guiseppe Verdis early opera Ernani, 1844

Barcelona (19th c. ). The Rambla and the Teatro
Barcelona (19th c.). The Rambla and the Teatro del Liceo opera house. Drawing by Isidore Deroy. Litography. SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona City History Museum

War and Peace
Final scene from the performance of Sergei Prokofievs opera " War and Peace", based on Leo Tolstoys novel. Opera Theatre in Kiroy

The Opera House, Vienna, Austro-Hungary. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Brunnhilde Awakens
Act three : Brunnhilde awakens

Wotan at the Pyre
Wotan bids farewell to his daughter Brunnhilde as she sleeps a magic sleep surrounded by a magic fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Sigfried does it !)

BRUNNHILDE stands on a rock looking the very model of a helden-madchen (hero-maiden)

Wagner / Ring / Dragon
Loge pretends to be afraid of Alberich in the guise of a dragon

Victor Capoul / Gill
Victor Capoul (1839-1924) tenor of the Opera Comique and among the very earliest singers to be recorded

USA / Met Opera / Stage
NEW YORK a performer takes a bow, as a bouquet of flowers is handed up

G&s / Pirates, India 3
Young Frederic is reminded of his duty at pistol-point by the Pirate King and Ruth in an amateur production by the British community at Simla, India

Scene from Faust
Mephistopheles gives Faust a vision of Marguerite : the scholar is suitably impressed

Donizetti / Cook
GAETANO DONIZETTI Italian opera composer

Leoncavallo / Caric Ths
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO Italian opera composer looking rather pleased with himself

Christine Nilsson / Cdv
CHRISTINA NILSSON Swedish opera singer as Violetta in Verdis La Traviata

Verdi / Otello / Liebig Card
Otello arrives in Cyprus, a triumphant hero

Strauss / Salome / At NY Met
Salome performs her dance of the seven veils during a production at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1907

Rimsky, Snow Maiden 3
( Snegurochka ) Bobilicka, a peasant woman with whom the Snow Maiden goes to live

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