Opera vana posters & prints

Purity and vanity Pieter Nolpe

Allegory of the transience Arnold Houbraken

The impermanence Jan Ewoutsz.

Playbill advertising a performance of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'Crispino e la Comare' at the Shaftesbury Theatre English School

Henriette Sonntag in the role of 'Donna Anna' from the opera 'Don Giovanni' by Mozart French School

Portrait of the opera singer Teresa Vandoni, 1797 Anonymous

Liane de Vries, opera singer Anonymous

Set design for Act I of the opera 'Khovanshchina', Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin

Portrait of the Opera singer Vera Petrova-Zvantseva Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin

Poster for the Opera Vercingétorix by Félix Fourdrain, 1912 Anonymous

At the Opera August Stephan Sedlacek

Stage design by Giacomo Torelli for the opera 'Venere Gelosa' performed in 1643 at Teatro novissimo in Venise Pierre Aveline

The New Opera Ivanhoe at the Royal English Opera House: The Tournament at Ashby-De-La-Zouch Anonymous

Premiere Poster for the opera Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi in Teatro Grande, Trieste, 1850 Anonymous

Claudius Civilis Blockades the Romans in Vetera Castra Otto van Veen

At the Opera, 1899 Eugen von Blaas

Cover of the first edition of the vocal score of opera Giovanna dArco by Giuseppe Verdi, c. 1846 Anonymous

At the Opera James Watterston Herald

Nikolay and Medea Figner in the opera Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1890s Anonymous

Scene from the Opera 'Norma' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London,1847 English School

Scene from the New Opera Love's Triumph at Covent Garden 1862 Anonymous

Scene from the opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) by M. Glinka, End 1830s Grigori Grigorievich Gagarin

Scene from the Opera of Ernani, at Her Majesty's Theatre. Anonymous

Scene from the opera 'Cavalleria rusticana', by Pietro Mascagni Italian School

Don Carlos. Costume design for the opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, 1845 Anonymous

Elvira. Costume design for the opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, 1845 Anonymous

Set design for the Opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi Anonymous

Henriette Sontag in opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anonymous

Pauline Viardot as Orfeo in the opera Orpheo ed Euridice by Ch, Gluck, 1890 Anonymous

Portrait of the singer Alexandra Panaeva-Kartseva as Tatyana in the opera Eugene Onegin Anonymous

State Visit to the Royal Italian Opera, Her Majesty's Retiring Room Anonymous

View of the Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill, from the series Operum antiquorum romanorum, 1562 Joannes van Doetecum

The autograph manuscript: Opera Ernani, final aria Solingo, errante e misero, Early 1840s Anonymous

Mdlle. Elena Angri,1821/1824-1886, of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London Anonymous

Opera Falstaff: first edition of the original version, 1893 Anonymous

Portrait of Anna van Citters, Daughter of Aernout van Citters and Josina Parduyn Simon Dubois