Opera-going public posters & prints

Stalls at the Opera, published in 'The Graphic', 1870 English School

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

Portrait of the composer and conductor Franco Faccio, Anonymous

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

Scene in La Rosiere, the New Comic Opera at the Shaftesbury Theatre Anonymous

Poster for the Opera Vercingétorix by Félix Fourdrain, 1912 Anonymous

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

Poster for the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, c. 1870 Anonymous

At the Opera August Stephan Sedlacek

The Beggar's Opera William Hogarth

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

Scene from Beethoven's Fidelio Anonymous

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

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

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

Scene from the New Opera La Basoche at the Royal English Opera Anonymous

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

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

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

Opera Jérusalem by Giuseppe Verdi, on 26 November 1847 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier ( Anonymous

Cover of the vocal score of opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, ca 1872 Anonymous

The operatic war in New York. Illustration from Puck Anonymous

Stage design for the tragedy Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller, 1824 Anonymous

Premiere Poster for the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner in the Éden Théâtre, Paris, 1887 Anonymous

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

La Traviata: first edition of the original version, 1854 Anonymous

Cover of the vocal score of opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner, 1894 Anonymous

Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner. Illustration to the premiere, 1865, 1865 Anonymous

Opera Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, 1902 Anonymous

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

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

The State Performance at the Royal Italian Opera: The Royal Box Anonymous

Masquerades and Operas, Burlington Gate, 1724 William Hogarth

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