Glimpses of Gotham and city characters. Men and women who deal in fancy costumes. New York, 1881. Actresses Lizzie Kelsey, Pauline Markham, Emily Duncan, Eliza Wetherby, Fanny Louise Buckingham.
Category: Opera
Emma Eames. American opera singer.
Emma Hayden Eames Emma Hayden Eames (1865 – 1952) was an American opera singer (soprano) and vocal pedagogue.
Pitti-Sing. Victorian opera character.
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Portraits by Savely Sorine 1920s
Content Portraits by Savely Sorine (1878-1953)
Vaslav Nijinsky in Scheherazade, 1911
Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890 – 1950) dancing in the role of the Golden Slave in ‘Scheherazade’.
Nô, Noh-men or Omote, jap. 能 楽 robes.
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La Sylphide. The ballerina Marie Taglioni dancing the Flore.
Marie Taglioni was the first star of the romantic ballet. It is considered the first master of the tip dance.
Fanny Elssler dances the Cachucha, 1836
Fanny Elssler dances the Cachucha. Le Diable boiteux 1836. In the ballet, “the limping devil” by Casimir Gide.
Cornélie Falcon. Costume of Rachel in the opera “Jewess”.
Cornélie Falcon (1814–1897). In the picture it shows the Rachel in the opera La Juive, by Jacques Fromental Halévy.
The Pirates of Penzance 1879.
The Pirates of Penzance, a comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and William S. Gilbert 1879. Costume design for the opera The Pirates of Penzance or the The Slave of Duty by… Read More