Opera Collection (#4)

Advert, The Riviera Baby Carriage, Great Portland Street, London Date: 1910

Opera "La fanciulla del West"by Giacomo Puccini, 1914 (poster)
GIA4803463 Opera " La fanciulla del West" by Giacomo Puccini, 1914 (poster) by Palanti, Giuseppe (1881-1946); Private Collection; (add.info)

The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816

DER ROSENKAVALIER Octavian presents the Silver Rose to Sophie in Act II: from the Covent Garden production with Delia Reinhardt and Elizabeth Schumann Date: 6 June 1925

Set design for the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1. 10. 1884, 1884
Set design for the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1.10.1884, 1884. Found in the collection of Museo Teatrale alla Scala

Portrait of the composer Sergei Rakhmaninov (1873-1943), 1930. Artist: Grigoriev, Boris Dmitryevich (1886-1939)
Portrait of the composer Sergei Rakhmaninov (1873-1943), 1930. Found in the collection of the State Central M. Glinka Museum of Music, Moscow

Ride of the Valkyries. Artist: Delitz
Ride of the Valkyries. Scene from Richard Wagners (1813-1883) opera The Valkyrie, showing Brunhilde bearing a wounded warrior to Valhalla

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 19th century Russian composer, 1912. From Musical Celebrities series of cards issued by WD & HO Wills. (Bristol & London, 1912)

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Opera Square with Ibrahim Pasha statue in Cairo, Egypt
Opera Square with Ibrahim Pasha statue and the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt. Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt was the second ruler of the Khedivate instituted by the Muhammad Ali dynasty

Caricature of Harry Paulton, actor and dramatist
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917), actor and dramatist. Seen here outside the Avenue Theatre, London, in cloak and hat -- Manteaux Noirs; or, a Tale of the Embankment

A portrait from the film Tales of Hoffmann
Dr Miracle (Robert Helpmann) in Tales of Hoffmann

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York, USA

Italy, Lombardy, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, La Scala Opera House, evening

Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), 1902. Private Collection

Costume design for the ballet The Firebird (L oiseau de feu) by I. Stravinsky, 1922. Private Collection

La Loge (The Theatre Box), 1874. Artist: Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)
La Loge (The Theatre Box), 1874. Found in the collection of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Aerial view of Sydney Opera House, and a cruise ship in the harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Francesco Matania
Chevalier Francesco Matania (1884-1957), operatic singer and professor of singing, pictured in The Tatler at the time of his return to London in 1920

Pauline Mailhac - Austrian Soprano - Role of Brunhilde
Pauline Mailhac (1858-1946) - Austrian Operatic Soprano. Photograph of her farewell performance in Wagners Gotterdammerung on 15th June 1901 in the role of Brunhilde - Karlsruhe Opera. Date: 1901

Diana Mitford
Mr Robert Heber-Percy, Mrs Bryan Guinness (the former Diana Freeman Mitford) and Lord Berners pictured attending the Russian ballet at the Royal Opera House. Date: 1934

Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett at Cap D Antibes
American opera singer Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960) pictured with his wife in the garden of their French Riviera home at Cap D Antibes in 1932. Date: 1932

Mrs Robert Winthrop Chanler (Mlle. Lina Cavalieri)
The Italian singer Lina Cavalieri, renowned for her great beauty pictured following her marriage to the millionaire American painter, Mr Robert Winthrop Chanler. The photograph was taken in St

Sydney Sunrise at Waverton
Sydney, Australia

Australia Sydney Central Business District landmarks around Sydney Harbour view from Waverton
Sydney, Australia. Amazing skyline on morning

MOZART: MAGIC FLUTE. Set design for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts opera The Magic Flute ( Die Zauberfl├Âte ). Aquatint engraving, Austrian, late 18th century, by J. & P. Schaffer

Wealthy opera-goers, 1900
Upperclass family at the opera in their box seats, circa 1900. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a Louis Loeb illustration

Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta - Ruins
Ruins of the Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta - severely damaged in 1942 following German bombing raids during World War Two and pulled down following the war

Strauss / Elektra / Bischoff
Johannes Bischoff as Orestes

CARMEN LIEBIG
Scenes from the opera, based on a story by Prosper Merimee

Wotans Farewell
WOTANS ABSCHIED Wotans farewell to Brunnhilde

Ballet Russses / Cover
Cover programme design for Col de. Basils Ballet Russes, at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, for June-September 1936

Couple at Opera C1875
Anticipation: an engaged couple in their box at the opera - she is still wondering whether he loves her

Offenbach Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffmann) The closing scene of the Venetian episode : Hoffmann watches as Guilietta goes off with another lover

Costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade (colour litho)
6030994 Costume design for a Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade (colour litho) by Bakst, Leon (1866-1924) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Costume Design for Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3060378 Costume Design for Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1914 (w/c & gouache on paper) by Brailovsky, Leonid Mihhaylovich (1867-1937); The Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Poster, Moody Manners Opera Company
Theatre poster, Moody Manners Opera Company, from Covent Garden, London, touring to principal cities with productions including Carmen, Lohengrin and Faust

Swan Lake - Robert Helpmann as Prince Siegfried
Ballet dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) in the role of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes) at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (Sadlers Wells Ballet). Date: 1946

Stage design for the ballet The Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky. Artist: Sudeykin, Sergei Yurievich
Stage design for the ballet The Nutcracker by P. Tchaikovsky. Private Collection

Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1897. Private Collection

The Walkuren (Valkyrien), ca 1899. Found in the Collection of Biblioteca de Catalunya

Poster for the opera Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) by Giacomo Puccini, 1918. Found in the Collection of Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Archille Bertarelli

Elvira. Costume design for the opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, 1845. Found in the collection of Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Musical evening with the composer Anton Rubinstein. Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballet The Afternoon of a Faun by C. Debussy. Artist: Bakst, Leon (1866-1924)
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballet The Afternoon of a Faun by C. Debussy. Found in the collection of State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow

Advertising Poster for the Ballet dancer Anna Pavlova in the ballet Les sylphides by F. Chopin, 1909. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Title page of Souvenir program for Ballets Russes. Artist: Bakst, Leon (1866-1924)
Title page of Souvenir program for Ballets Russes. Private Collection

Ultrafashionable lady. Costume design for the ballet The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) by I. Stravinsky, 1912. Found in the collection of the State Central A

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