Opera Collection (page 4)

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

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

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

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

POSTER FOR TOSCA 1900
The first production, at Romes Teatro Costanzi on 14 January 1900, is received coolly by many critics, but is a resounding success with the audience and the public

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

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