Opera Collection (page 15)

Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden, London 1858
The Royal Italian Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Date: 1858

Pipers Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Pipers Opera House, B Street, Virginia City, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

A Wonderful Performance of Madama Butterfly
Scenes from a 1915 production of Madame Butterfly at the London Opera House, with the great Japanese prima donna Tamaki Miura in the title role. Date: 1915

A New Butterfly - Madame Tamaki Miura
Madame Tamaki Miura (1884-1946), Japanese opera singer, whose most famous part was in Puccinis Madame Butterfly. Pictured in The Tatler magazine in June 1915 at the time she was appearing in the role

Cutting sixty miles of tunnel in Paris
Cross-section of plans for the tunnel extension to the Paris Metro under the Paris Opera House 1903

(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role and Mademoiselle Emelen as the Prince in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: 1899

Gala Performance at the Met, New York - Josef Hofmann
Golden Jubilee Gala Performance at the Met, New York by Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) - Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor

Stage effects at Covent Garden for Das Rheingold
Behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden demonstrating how the Rhine maidens are made to swim naturally in Wagners Das Rheingold. Date: 1936

Norrmalm Square in Stockholm, Sweden
Norrmalm Square in Stockholm Sweden, with the Royal Palace in the centre and the Opera House on the left. 1819

Madame Trebelli, Her Majestys Theatre, London
Advert for Elliott and Fry, photographers -- Madame Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (Zelia Gilbert, 1836-1892), French opera singer, Her Majestys Theatre, London, J H Mapleson, Lessee and Manager. 1880

Madame Albani, Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London
Advert for Elliott and Fry, photographers -- Madame Albani (Dame Emma Albani, 1847-1930), operatic soprano at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London, Ernest Gye, Lessee and Manager. 1880

John Braham, English tenor opera singer
John Braham (c.1774-1856), legendary English tenor opera and oratorio singer. circa 1820s

Advert, Dollond Opticians, Ludgate Hill, London -- binoculars, opera and field glasses, etc. 1880

Anastasia Robinson, Countess of Peterborough (c 1692-1755), English soprano (later contralto) in Handel operas. circa 1720s

Barbara Hepworth discusses with Michael Tippett
Sculptor Barbara Hepworth discussing the object she had designed for the dancers in the opera, A Midsummer Marriage, composed by Michael Tippett and premiered on 27 January 1955. Date: 1955

Malay Opera players, Singapore
Malay Opera players on stage in costume, Singapore. Date: circa 1920

New opera cloak 1897
Womans opera cloak. Date: 1897

Summer opera at Glyndebourne
Summer opera in the South Downs: Mozart at Glyndebourne amid countryhouse charms. Date: 1937

Gunnar Graarud as Parsifal at Bayreuth Date: first performed 1882

Milan, Italy - Interior of the Teatro alla Scala
circa 1910s

Opera Glasses Date: 1883

The Paris Opera 1840 Date: 1840

XI Deutsches Turnfest - Frankfurt, Germany
XI Deutsches Turnfest (11th German Gymnastics Festival) - Frankfurt, Germany - July 1908 - inset scenes of two brick throwers, The opera House

Emilio Arrieta (1823-1894). Colored engraving
Emilio Arrieta (1823-1894). Spanish composer. Engraving of The Academy, 1878. Colored

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Mme. Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite, a comic opera in three acts, at the Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

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Mme. Colson as Michelma in La Moissonneuse at the Theatre Lyrique.. Pauline Marchand (Madame Colson) was a French opera singer

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Mlle. Caroline Lassiat in Maziliers Orfa at the Academie Imperiale de Musique.. Lassiat was a French soloist and later became a teacher at the Paris Opera ballet school as Mme. Dominique

The Marriage of Figaro by Claude Shepperson
An incident in the third act of the opera, The Marriage of Figaro in which the Count thinks he has caught the Countess philandering with Figaro

PISANO, Andrea da Pontedera, called Andrea (1270-1349). Saturn. 1337-1341. Moulding which decorated Giottos Campanile. Renaissance art. Trecento. Florentine school. Relief on rock. ITALY. Florence

Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1791-1864
Giacomo Meyerbeer. German opera composer of Jewish descent. Despised by Richard Wagner. Date: 1791-1864

Pulling down the Red Flag, Grand Opera House; Paris Commune
Red Flag being taken down from the Grand Opera House in Paris, indicating the fall of the Paris Commune of 1871. As the Commune fell 8 days of bloody revenge began

Royal Covent Garden Opera 1900
A performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Date: 1900

Childrens Pantomime 1871
The Childrens Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre. Date: 1871

BAD TASTE OF THE TOWN
The Bad Taste of the Town, also known as Masquerades and Operas: a satire on foreign imports such as pantomime, Italianate architecture and opera. Date: 1724

SOCIAL / MASQUERADE SUPPER
Tom and Jerry enjoying a masquerade supper at the Opera House Date: 1820

SOCIAL / GREEN ROOM 1820
Fashionable visitors to the Green Room at Drury Lane Theatre, London Date: 1820

CARMEN TAUNTS DON JOSE
At the tavern of Lillas Pastia, Carmen taunts Don Jose (scene from Bizets opera) Date: late 19th century

Verdi - Rigoletto - Liebig2
La Scala, Milano, and a scene from the opera which was actually first performed at La Fenice, Venezia Date: first performed 1851

Royal Italian Opera - Foscari
The first English production of this opera set in Venice, staged at the Royal Italian Opera House, London : it is based on a play by Byron. Date: first performed 1844

Reyer - Salammbo
Reyers opera is based on the popular epic novel by Flaubert Date: first performed 1890

Huttenes As Turndot
Hanni Huttenes as Turandot in a German production at Chemnitz Date: first performed 1926

Hortense Schneider in gaiter scene
Hortense Schneider in the celebrated guitar scene. Date: 1870

LA NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO
Little is known about this opera, not mentioned in our reference books : however, we can safely say the action is set in Venice, and concerns a gentleman and a lady... Date: 1923

MESSAGER / VERONIQUE
Mariette Sully as Veronique, Jean Perier as Florestan, the donkey as itself, at the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role and Mademoiselle Emelen as the Prince in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 2
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 1
(Cinderella) Brejean-Graviere as the Fairy in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

GLUCK / ORPHEE, PARIS
Delna as Orfeo at the Opera- Comique, Paris, is appalled at the loss of Eurydice : originally sung by a castrato, the role of Orfeo is generally now taken by a female singer

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