Opera Collection (#32)

Georgina Weldon
GEORGINA WELDON (nee Thomas) Remarkable and eccentric adventuress, opera singer, mistress of Charles Gounod etc. Date: 1837 - 1914

Female Type Melisande
Melisande, with her long hair (a reference to Pelleas et Melisande, Maeterlincks play, and Debussys opera). Date: 1916

Alberich Steals the Gold
End of Scene One : Alberich makes off with the gold

Brunnhildes End
Act three : Brunnhilde rides her horse Grane into Siegfrieds funeral pyre

The Rhinemaidens frolic

Prinzregenter Theater
The Prinzregenter Theatre, Munich, completed in 1901, was built for performances of Wagners operas. All seats are in the amphitheatre. Date: 1930s

Opera / Puccini / Boheme
LA BOHEME Mlle Kousnietzoff as Mimi

At the Opera
A REMINISCENCE OF THE OPERA Date: circa 1850

Music / Opera / Gay
POLLY by John Gay - Miss Brown in the character of Polly Date: 1777

Eugene Onegin
EUGENE ONEGIN Karl Burrian as Eugene Onegin Date: 1909

Anna Bolena opera
Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti, performed at the Italian Opera, Paris. A dramatic episode from Act 2, Scene 3 Date: first performed 1820

Massenet / Werther
A dramatic moment in the first Paris production : Act III - Werther (M.Ibos) throws himself at the feet of Charlotte (Mlle. Delna) Date: first performed 1892

Purcells opera King Arthur at Drury Lane Theatre, London
Purcells opera King Arthur on stage at Drury Lane Theatre, London. This is the scene where Arthur is tempted by two nymphs or sirens bathing in a stream, but resists the temptation

Mograbi Opera House and Cinema - Tel Aviv, Israel - at the junction of Allenby and Ben Yehuda Streets - the centre of town in the 1920s

Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, America

Mikado cast members with sailor
Six female cast members of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Mikado, with a man in a sailor suit who looks as if hes wandered in from HMS Pinafore

Seven Mikado cast members
Seven cast members of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Mikado -- six women and one man. The women are wearing kimonos and holding fans, and one has an open parasol over her shoulder

Mikado cast members in kimonos with fans
Six female cast members of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Mikado, wearing their kimonos and brandishing their fans

Mansudae Art Theatre, Pyongyang, North Korea
External view of the Mansudae Art Theatre in the centre of Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. The elaborate sculpture of human figures in front includes a fountain

Music cover, spinning wheel scene from Martha
Music cover for the comic opera entitled Martha, or the Market at Richmond by Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883), set in the early 18th century

Music cover for The Real Irish Polkas, as danced at Her Majestys Balls, Almack s, and the Opera Houses of Milan, Paris, Vienna, London, etc

Music cover for Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille
Music cover for Charles Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille, based on airs from Herves popular opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic

Music cover for Chilperic Quadrilles
Music cover for the Chilperic Quadrilles, based on airs from Herves opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic, arranged (probably for piano) by C H R Marriott

Music cover for La Fille de Madame Angot Valse, a waltz made popular by the comic opera by Charles Lecocq (1832-1918), La Fille de Madame Angot, first performed in 1872

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Opera Theatre. Photo (34/40) from a fold-out set

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Columbus Theatre
Argentina - Buenos Aires - The Teatro Colon (Columbus Theatre) - opera house. Photo (6/40) from a fold-out set

Mexico - Puerto in the Veracruz Province. An important commercial building

Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794 - 1854), Italian tenor and one of the most famous singers in Europe in the 1830s and 1840s

G&S The Yeomen of the Guard recording 1929
Advertisement for a complete recording of Gilbert and Sullivans opera, The Yeomen of the Guard, which premiered in 1888. A His Masters Voice electrical recording

Wagner, Parsifal Act three, recording 1929
Advertisement for a recording of Act three of Wagners opera Parsifal, which premiered at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882. Illustrated center is the white dove

L Opera, Paris, France

Grand Duke Alexis and Lina Cavalieri
Grand Duke Alexis, Admiral in Chief of the Russian fleet betting at the Grand Prix with the Italian opera singer, Lina Cavalieri

Mlle Lina Cavalieri
The Italian singer Lina Cavalieri, renowned for her great beauty. Here on the front cover of Femina, the caption reads: The great singer after a triumphant season in America has just returned to

Three portraits of Lina Cavalieri
Three profile portraits of the beautiful Italian opera singer, Mlle Lina Cavalieri

Grete Siegert, in Mignon
Grete Siegert, singer in the role of Philine in the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)

Auguste Vaucorbeil / Gill
Auguste Vaucorbeil (1821-1884) French composer, conductor and director of the Opra de Paris

Maria Ivogun, as Manon
Maria Ivogun (1891-1987) Celebrated Hungarian soprano in the role of Manon, from the Opera of the same name by Jules Massenet

Richard Tauber (1891-1948) Austrian tenor

Matilde di Shabran
A scene from Matilde di Shabran, an opera by Rossini, performed at the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden, London, in 1854

The Opera House at Baku, Azerbaijan

Britannia and Eve, January 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous woman in evening dress and gloves in a box at the theatre, her opera glasses and programme put to one side as she sits engrossed in a play

Bellini, Vincenzo 1801 - 1835
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini. Sicilian opera composer and the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera

Rossini, Gioachino Antonio 1792 - 1868
Gioachino Antonio Rossini. Italian composer in Paris in 1865

Ambroise Thomas 1811 - 1896
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas. French opera composer

Donizetti, Gaetano 1791-1864
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti. Prolific Italian composer, famed for his many operas but also composer of numerous orchestral and chamber works

Weber, Carl Maria von 1786 - 1826
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber. German composer and one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school

Lesueur, Jean Francois 1760-1837
Jean Francois Le Sueur (Lesueur). French composer of the classical era, best known for his operas and oratorios

Berton, Henri Montan 1767 - 1844
Henri Montan Berton. French composer, mainly of operas. Son of composer Pierre Montan Berton (1727 - 1780)

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