Operatic Collection (page 2)

Members of the Operatic Association dressed for a Toy Ballet at the British Industries Ball at the Dorchester House Hotel, London, 1927

French operatic bass singer Henri-Etienne Derivis 1780-1856 as Alemar in Les Abencerages or The Abencerrages by Luigi Cherubini at the Opera de Paris, 1817

Music cover, Das Dreimaderlhaus, by Franz Schubert
Music cover, Das Dreimaderlhaus (House of the Three Girls), by Franz Schubert, a Viennese pastiche operetta in three acts, rearranged by Heinrich Berte

Music cover, Flotows Martha, Cassells Operatic Selections No.10, comprising the Overture, a Fantasia by F W Bradshaw, and some vocal numbers, including The Last Rose of Summer. Date: circa 1900s

Advert, Boosey & Co, Song Books and Operas
Advert, Boosey & Co, The Royal Song Books, The Royal Edition of Operas, Ballad Operas, and Booseys Cabinet Operas for Pianoforte Solo. Date: late 19th century

Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, Verdi
Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, by Verdi, arranged for piano by Rudolf Nordmann. Date: late 19th century

Cover design, Monsieur Beaucaire, opera by Andre Messager
Cover design, musical score, Monsieur Beaucaire, a romantic opera by Andre Messager, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, based on the story by Booth Tarkington

Production of The Trojans by Berlioz, 1957
A scene from the Covent Garden production of Berliozs opera Les Troyens (The Trojans) in 1957. Dido (Blanche Thebom) addresses her people in the second half: The Trojans at Carthage

Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor
Caricature, Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor. 1893

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

Famous Musicians of 1909, including Paderewski and Elgar
Famous Musicians of 1909: (top row left) Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish pianist, composer, politician (and spokesman for Polish independence)

Portrait of Marie Roze, French operatic soprano
Portrait of Marie Roze (Maria Hippolyte Ponsin, 1846-1926), French operatic soprano. Beauty and Song. 1882

Lina Pacary (1868-1953), operatic soprano in Reyers Salambo Date: early 20th century

Music cover, The Gipsy Duet from Verdis Il Trovatore
Music cover, The Gipsy Duet from Il Trovatore, opera by Verdi, in the version performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Sung by Fanny Huddart and Augustus Braham. circa 1850

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold - French musical composer
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (1791-1833) - French operatic composer of Alsatian descent who also wrote many pieces for the piano, orchestra, and the ballet

Richard Carle in The tenderfoot an operatic comedy in 3 acts : book by Richard Carle; music by HL Heartz. Date c1903

Heinrich Hensel (1874-1935) - a famous German Tenor, chosen by Wagner to sing the role of Parsifal at Bayreuth (1911-12). He also sang the role in the first production staged in London in 1914

George Baklanoff - Latvian Operatic Baritone
George (Georgy, Georges) Baklanoff (Baklanov) (1881-1938) - Latvian Operatic Baritone Date: circa 1910s

Aladdin, Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, London
Aladdin, at the Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 26 December 1904(?) A refined spectacular operatic and extremely funny presentment of the ever-popular Eastern Tale

Music cover, Les Huguenots
Music cover, Operatic Gems No. 18, Les Huguenots, by Felix Gantier (probably an arrangement after Meyerbeer). Showing Old Paris on the Eve of St Bartholomew (the night before the massacre)

The talented operatic dancer Ettie Landau, London, 1923 who has made a success with her Shadow and Shawl dances in Julian Wylies Brighter London at the Hippodrome Date: 1923

Miss Rose Coghlan as Lady Marsden
Miss Rose Coghlan (1851-1932), English actress, in the role of Lady Marsden, in a production of All For Her, a play by Hermann Merivale and Palgrave Simpson, based on the Dickens novel

Miss Fannie Leslie, actress and singer
Miss Fannie Leslie (1856-1935), actress and singer, seen here in the role of Mrs White. circa 1880s

Huet as Charles VII in the opera, Jeanne d Arc, Paris
M Huet in the role of Charles VII in the opera Jeanne d Arc a Orleans by Michele Carafa di Colobrano, at the Opera Comique, Paris. circa 1821

Miss Rachel Sanger in The Bonnie Fishwife
Miss Rachel Sanger in the role of Maggie MacFarlane in The Bonnie Fishwife, a comedietta or farce in one act by Charles Selby. circa 1880s

Miss Heath in the role of Jane Shore
Miss Heath (1835-1887), actress, in the role of Jane Shore (title role of a play by W G Wills). circa 1880s

M Huet as Charles VII in the opera Jeanne d Arc, Paris
M Huet in the role of Charles VII in Act 2 of the opera Jeanne d Arc a Orleans by Michele Carafa di Colobrano, at the Opera Comique, Paris. 1821

Madame Emma Albani-Gye, Canadian operatic soprano
Madame Emma Albani-Gye (1847-1930), Canadian operatic soprano. 1889

Jenny Lind as Alice in Roberto il Diavolo
Jenny Lind (1820-1887), Swedish operatic soprano, in the role of Alice in Roberto il Diavolo (Robert le Diable, Robert the Devil) by Meyerbeer. circa 1847

Classical singer with piano accompanist. early 20th century

Three women in various costumes, including Mlle Lise Noblet (left) in La Sylphide (ballet by Taglioni), and Madame Laure Cinti-Damoreau (right) as Isabelle in Robert the Devil (opera by Meyerbeer)

Nellie Melba, opera singer, in the title role of Aida
Nellie Melba (1861-1931), Australian operatic soprano, seen here in the title role of Aida, by Verdi. circa 1892

Fanny Persiani, Italian opera singer
Fanny Persiani (1812-1867), Italian opera singer (soprano). circa 1840s

Giulia Grisi in the role of Adalgisa
Giulia Grisi, Italian opera singer, in the role of the priestess Adalgisa in Bellinis Norma. circa 1830s

Ffrangcon Davies - Welsh Operatic Baritone / Singing Teacher
Ffrangcon Davies (1855-1918) - Welsh Operatic Baritone and Singing Teacher. Date: circa 1906

Pauline Lucca (1841-1908). Engraving. Colored
Pauline Lucca (1841-1908). Austrian Soprano. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1878. Colored

Caricature of Charles Santley, English-born baritone
Caricature of Charles Santley (1834-1922), English-born operatic and oratorio singer. A comment on his recent conversion to Roman Catholicism. 1880

Caricature of John Sims Reeves, English tenor
Caricature of the operatic, oratorio and ballad singer John Sims Reeves (1821-1900) -- Mr Sims Reeves introduces a new tenor. 1880

Caricature of the actress Dame Genevieve Ward
Caricature of the American-born British soprano and actress Dame Genevieve Ward (1837-1922). 1880

Caricature of Samuel Hayes, Italian Opera Season
Caricature of Samuel Hayes, who was putting on an Italian Opera Season at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in the absence of Henry Irving. 1881

Caricature of the singer John Sims Reeves
Caricature of the operatic, oratorio and ballad singer John Sims Reeves -- An Upper Tenor. circa 1880s

James Cobb, Playwright
JAMES COBB - Secretary in the East India Co. who wrote many mediocre stage pieces, mostly musical comedies but including an operatic version of Paul et Virginie, best forgotten. Date: 1756 - 1818

Janis Paige (Donna Mae Jaden) American actress with operatic training Date: 1922 -

Beniamino Gigli / Cig
BENIAMINO GIGLI Italian operatic tenor Date: 1890 - 1958

GYE ( 1810 - 1878 )
FREDERICK GYE - British operatic director. Date: 1810 - 1878

Music cover, Lurline Quadrille from Wallaces opera, by Charles D Albert. circa 1850

Music sheet, La Fille du Regiment Quadrille, arranged by Musard. circa 1850

Lina Cavalieri (1874 - 1944), Italian operatic soprano, actress, and monologist. 1911

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