Opera Collection (page 8)

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

Puccini / Butterfly / Record
Complete on 16 records, at 4 shillings and sixpence each, or complete for three pounds and twelve shillings - at least 100 pounds in todays money !

Mussorgsky / Boris / Costume
Costume design for Boris

Pinafore / Programme 2
Inside pages of the programme for the original production, naming George Grossmith as Sir Joseph Porter

G&s / Patience (Photo)
Winifred Lawson as Patience, the country girl who appeals to the aesthetes

Flotow Martha Quartet
The delightful spinning quartet from Act Two, as the two posh ladies, disguised as country girls, reveal their inability to perform mundane household tasks

Traviata - Liebig - 5
Act two, scene 19 : at Floras ball, Alfredos father rebukes his behaviour, and the Baron, Violettas former protector, challenges him to a duel

Magic Flute Liebig 2
(The Magic Flute) Act 1, Scene 6 : Tamino is presented to the Queen of the Night by his three rescuers; he vows to rescue her daughter Pamina, kidnapped by Sarastro

Berlioz Faust Liebig 4
Mephistopheles and Faust ride towards the abyss - demons line the route

Faust - Liebig - 1
FAUST Mephistopheles, summoned by Faust, shows him a vision of Marguerite, whereupon he signs a pact exchanging his soul for youth and pleasure

Blackpool Opera House
Interior view during a performance of Gilbert & Sulivans The Pirates of Penzance

Parsifal - Liebig 1
Act one : Amfortas and his Holy Knights

Gotterdammerung Bayreuth
Act two : stage performance at Bayreuth

Act 2 at Bayreuth 1908
Act two - as performed at Bayreuth in 1908

Wagner / Faustin
RICHARD WAGNER German opera composer and conductor extraordinaire, astonishing everybody with his Music of the Future

Wagner / Materna / Kikeriki
RICHARD WAGNER German composer, with the celebrated opera singer Mme Materna, taking part in a Wagnerian performance on a hot day in Paris in 1890

Puccini / Boheme / Paris
LA BOHEME assorted scenes from the first Paris performance

Laclos / Liaisons / Valmont
Le Vicomte de Valmont uses his mistress, Opera as a writing desk whilst writing to the virtuous Mme. Tourvel, whom he plans to seduce

Music Scores / Berlioz
part of the score of Berliozs La Damnation de Faust, first performed in December 1846, and later turned into an opera

Rossini Balestrieri
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI composing his opera Il Barbieri di Seviglia, first performed on 20 February 1816

Puccini Butterfly Letter
Finally, a letter from Pinkerton

Social / Paris Opera 1912
The audience arrives at the Opera, Paris Date: circa 1912

Brunnhilde and her Papa
Act 3 : Brunnhilde pleads with Wotan, her father, to spare her the humiliation he proposes to inflict upon her

L ELISIR D AMORE 1929
L ELISIR D AMORE 1. Schipa & Saraceni 2. Act 1 Scene 2 at La Scala, Milan, Italy

View of the Salle de Bal with a Performance of Rinaldo and Armida, 1688
XIR187832 View of the Salle de Bal with a Performance of Rinaldo and Armida, 1688 (oil on canvas) by Cotelle, Jean the Younger (1642-1708); 200x140 cm; Chateau du Grand Trianon, Versailles

Theaterloge / Theater Box (colour litho)
8666212 Theaterloge / Theater Box (colour litho) by Christophe (Colomb, Georges) (1856-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Theaterloge)

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Countess Almalviva and Susanna, from The Marriage of Figaro (engraving)
8631131 Countess Almalviva and Susanna, from The Marriage of Figaro (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Countess Almalviva and her maid Susanna)

Aida, by Verdi, 1879 (sketch)
8698381 Aida, by Verdi, 1879 (sketch) by Lacroix, Eugene (1858-1950); Bibliotheque-Musee de l'Opera Garnier, Paris, France; (add.info.: Music)

The Damnation of Faust, c.1900 (illustration)
8698469 The Damnation of Faust, c.1900 (illustration) by Fraipont, Gustave (1849-1923); (add.info.: Music. La damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust), opera by Hector Berlioz (1845)

Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
5308226 Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld.; (add.info.: Portrait of Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1836-1865) a German Heldentenor

Leibig card depicting the opera Lohengrin, by the German composer, Richard Wagner. 19th century (chromolithograph)
5669590 Leibig card depicting the opera Lohengrin, by the German composer, Richard Wagner. 19th century (chromolithograph); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Character of "The Barber of Seville", 19th century (engraving)
FGL5466008 Character of "The Barber of Seville", 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Character of "The Barber of Seville" (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

Woman in fancy dress costume as Night (la Nuit), 1880s (lithograph)
5893506 Woman in fancy dress costume as Night (la Nuit), 1880s (lithograph); (add.info.: Woman in costume as Night (la Nuit) in a dress decorated with stars and zodiac signs for a masquerade ball

Sylvie Flour in Mille & Une Nuits at the Theatre du Chatelet, 1881 (lithograph)
5893504 Sylvie Flour in Mille & Une Nuits at the Theatre du Chatelet, 1881 (lithograph); (add.info.: Sylvie Flour as the First Bazaar Merchant in Mille & Une Nuits at the Theatre du Chatelet, 1881)

Woman in costume of Spring for a masquerade ball, 1880s (lithograph)
5893502 Woman in costume of Spring for a masquerade ball, 1880s (lithograph); (add.info.: Woman in costume of spring (le printemps) for a masquerade ball. Costume designed by M. Robin

Women in costume as Bebe designed by Alfred Grevin, 1880s (lithograph)
5893499 Women in costume as Bebe designed by Alfred Grevin, 1880s (lithograph); (add.info.: Woman in costume as Bebe designed by the caricaturist Alfred Grevin)

Woman in costume as a lawyer from the comedy Le Divorce
5893490 Woman in costume as a lawyer from the comedy Le Divorce.; (add.info.: Woman in costume as a lawyer from the comedy Le Divorce, Paris, late 19th century)

Emilie Mily Meyer, French soprano, 1879 (lithograph)
5893488 Emilie Mily Meyer, French soprano, 1879 (lithograph); (add.info.: Emilie Mily Meyer, French soprano, as Jacqueline in the operetta La Petite Mademoiselle (1879)

Mlle. Leocadie Lemercier as Petronille in "Le Sourd ou l'Auberge Pleine" at the Opera Comique
5855429 Mlle. Leocadie Lemercier as Petronille in "Le Sourd ou l'Auberge Pleine" at the Opera Comique; (add.info.: French soprano opera singer Mlle)

Mlle. Duprez as Angela in "Marco Spada" at the Opera Comique
5855420 Mlle. Duprez as Angela in "Marco Spada" at the Opera Comique.; (add.info.: Mlle. Caroline Duprez as Angela in "Marco Spada" at the Opera Comique)

Bignon in the role of Raoul de Foulques in "Richard III."
5855414 Bignon in the role of Raoul de Foulques in "Richard III."; (add.info.: Bignon in the role of Raoul de Foulques in "Richard III." Married to the celebrated Madame Albert)

Louis-Henri Obin in the role of Nicephore, emperor of the Orient, in "le Juif Errant" at the Theatre de
5855409 Louis-Henri Obin in the role of Nicephore, emperor of the Orient, in "le Juif Errant" at the Theatre de l'Opera.; (add.info.: Louis-Henri Obin in the role of Nicephore)

Gouget as Belphegor in "Les Cinq Cents Diables" at the Gaite
5855477 Gouget as Belphegor in "Les Cinq Cents Diables" at the Gaite.; (add.info.: Desire Louis Eugene Gouget (d.1897)

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