Opera exhibition posters & prints

Stage of the newly restored La Scala Unknown

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

Illustration Showing Chinese Opera Anonymous

Exterior faþade of the Palais Garnier Delmaet & Durandelle

Gaetano Berenstatt as Flavio, Francesca Cassoni as Emilia and Francesco Bernardi Senesino as Guido in Handel's Flavio Unknown

Scenography for 'La Straniera', by Vincenzo Bellini, at the Carignano theater, Turin Pietro Bertoja

Grand staircase of the Palais Garnier Delmaet & Durandelle

Programme for the opera 'Benvenuto Cellini' by Berlioz, performed in 1853 English School

Theatre Royal English Opera House, Westminster, London James Stow

Maud Allan as Salome David Allen & Sons Ltd.

Teatro Apollo, Rome, on the evening of November 15, 1847, Anonymous

Playbill for the Royal Italian Opera at Covent Garden, 1855 English School

Interior of the San Samuele Theatre, Venice Gabriele Bella

At the Opera August Stephan Sedlacek

Richard Strauss, composer Kunstanstalt Stengel & Co.

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 Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi in Teatro Grande, Trieste, 1850 Anonymous

Premiere of the opera Walküre, act III, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 1899 Anonymous

Riot at Covent Garden Theatre in 1763 in consequence of the Managers refusing to admit half-price in the Opera of... Louis Philippe Boitard

Poster for the Opera Faust by Charles Gounod at the Théâtre national de lOpéra, September 1900, 1 Anonymous

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

Scene from Apartments: Visitors to the Exhibition May Be Accommodated at the Princess' Theatre, London Anonymous

Premiere Poster for the opera Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner in the Opéra de Paris, 1861 Anonymous

Dinner Given to the Operatives of Messrs. Horrocks Miller and Co. At Manchester Upon Their Visit to the Art Treasures... Anonymous

Rehearsal of an opera Marco Ricci

Scene from the Opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi. Paris, Théâtre de lOpéra-Le Peletier, 11.03.1867 Anonymous

Theatre programme for The Weavers by Gerhart Hauptmann (Théâtre Libre, 29 May 1893), 1893 Anonymous

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

Luciano Pavarotti's free concert, Hyde Park, 1991 Ken Lennox

Luciano Pavarotti's free concert, Hyde Park, 1991 Ken Lennox

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

Poster advertising a performance of 'Aida' by Verdi, 1872 Italian School

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

Special issue of the periodical Illustrazione Italiana, dedicated to the premiere of Otello, 1887 Anonymous

Premiere of the opera Rienzi by Richard Wagner, at the Dresden Hoftheater on 20th October 1842, 1843 Anonymous

A performance of 'Le Turc Genereux' in Vienna on 6th April 1758 Bernardo Bellotto