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.
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Pitti-Sing. Victorian opera character.
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Portraits by Savely Sorine 1920s
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Vaslav Nijinsky in Scheherazade, 1911
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Traditional Japan Nô robes.
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The ballerina Marie Taglioni dancing the Flore.
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Fanny Elssler dances the Cachucha, 1836
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Cornélie Falcon as Rachel in the opera la Juive.
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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