Performance Collection (page 32)

Theatre / Amsterdam C1760
Stage performance in a theatre (Amsterdam)

Congreve / Old Bachelor
A scene from a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane London

Curry&rice / Station Band
An evening performance by the Station band

Curry&rice / Theatricals
Amateur theatricals on a British station - preparing for a performance by lacing up corsets, applying make-up etc

Music making in an aristocratic home, with violin, cello, spinet and singer

Ballet dancers rehearsing Rouet d Armor
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse rehearsing a new opera-ballet by Adolphe Piriou, Rouet d Armor (Wheel of Armour)

Ballet dancers waiting to rehearse
Ballet dancers at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse in their costumes, waiting to rehearse

Futuristic automatic orchestra
A futuristic automated orchestra -- musicians will become redundant, apart from the conductor who just has to turn a handle. At least the actors haven t been replaced... yet

Theatre / Plays / Laclos
Les Liaisons Dangereuses scene from act 1 performance at Maisons-Lafitte of the adaptation by Fernand Noziere

Pinero
The second Mrs Tanqueray, Eleonora Duse as Paula in act IV

Otello
The opening scene : the people of Cyprus watch the storm in Otello by Giuseppe Verdi

Falstaff first night
The composer Giuseppe Verdi taks a bow after the first performance at La Scala, Milano

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