Opera buffa posters & prints

The autograph manuscript: Le nozze di Figaro, Opera buffa in four acts, 1785 Anonymous

Bazile Emile Antoine Bayard

Mondo Novo, ca 1764-1765 Giandomenico Tiepolo

Commedia dellarte Scene in an Italian Landscape Anonymous

Carnival Scene (The Minuet) Giandomenico Tiepolo

La barca dei comici:: the Carlo Goldonis journey from Rimini to Chioggia, ca 1855 Anonymous

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

The Minuet Giandomenico Tiepolo

Composers of Opera Bouffe: M. Charles Lecocq, M.F.R. Hervé Anonymous

Bazile Emile Antoine Bayard

Composers of Opera Bouffe: M. Jacques Offenbach Anonymous

Bartholo Emile Antoine Bayard

Five caricatures of the cast of a French production of 'The Barber of Seville', by Gioachino Rossini Anonymous

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

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

Poster for the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi in Teatro Grande on 11 January 1843, 1843 Anonymous

Premiere of the opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi at La Scala in Milan on 9 February 1893, 1893 Anonymous

Illustration from 'Masques et Buffons', 1862 Maurice Sand

The operatic war in New York. Illustration from Puck Anonymous

Madame Miolan-Carvalho, of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London Anonymous

The Opera A W Huffam

Scene from Balfe's New Opera of the Rose of Castile at the Lyceum Theatre Anonymous

Costume design for the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, 1899 Anonymous

Poster for the opera Oberto conte di San Bonifacio by Giuseppe Verdi in Teatro Regio di Parma, 1913 Anonymous

I due Foscari (The Two Foscari). Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, London, 1847, 1847 Anonymous

Set design for the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 1.10.1884, 1884 Anonymous

The autograph manuscript: Falstaff, opera in three acts, 1894 Anonymous

Libretto of the opera La forza del destino by F. M. Piave, revised by the composer, 1863 Anonymous

Cover to the first edition of the Libretto of opera Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi, 1881 Anonymous

Buffaloes and Camels from the Royal Domain of San Bossore Animals at the Florence Exhibition Anonymous

Music sheet cover of the opera Mazeppa Anonymous

Premiere Poster for the opera Les Vêpres siciliennes by Giuseppe Verdi in Théâtre impérial de lOpér Anonymous

Suzanne Emile Antoine Bayard

Portrait of the composer and conductor Franco Faccio, Anonymous

Poster for the Opera Vercingétorix by Félix Fourdrain, 1912 Anonymous

Portrait of the operatic soprano Marianna Barbieri-Nini, the first Lucrezia in I Due Fo Anonymous