Opera buffa posters & prints

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

Bazile Emile Antoine Bayard

Commedia dellarte Scene in an Italian Landscape Anonymous

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

Composers of Opera Bouffe: M. Jacques Offenbach Anonymous

Mondo Novo, ca 1764-1765 Giandomenico Tiepolo

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

Carnival Scene (The Minuet) Giandomenico Tiepolo

The Minuet Giandomenico Tiepolo

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

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

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

Bazile Emile Antoine Bayard

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

Bartholo Emile Antoine Bayard

Illustration from 'Masques et Buffons', 1862 Maurice Sand

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

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

Suzanne Emile Antoine Bayard

Cover of the vocal score of opera La battaglia di Legnano by Giuseppe Verdi, 1860 Anonymous

The operatic war in New York. Illustration from Puck Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Opera A W Huffam

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

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

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

Scenery for the scene with Mimi and Rodolfo in the opera 'La Boheme' by Giacomo Puccini Luigi Morgari

Franz Josef at the Opera, 1883 Carl Kahler

Portrait of the composer and conductor Franco Faccio, Anonymous

Joseph Haydn at the first performance of his opera 'L'Incontro Improvviso' in the Esterhazy theatre, 29th August 1775 Pietro Travaglia

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