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Ora a noi - gramophone disc, record label

Ora a noi - gramophone disc, record label

Vocal duet (soprano and baritone), with orchestra Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano singer and silent film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1882. Sh... More

A singer, who with the symphony orchestra, helped put on a radio broadcast for the local people. Palermo, Sicily

A singer, who with the symphony orchestra, helped put on a radio broad...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cunegonda. Libretto. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

Cunegonda. Libretto. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Argomento"--p. 3-4; apology--p. 5; scene descriptions--p. 8. Music by Antonio Vivaldi--New Grove. "Con licenza de' superiori, e privilegio"--title page. Interlocutori: C... More

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

versi di Enrico Golisciani ; musica del maestro Giulio Cottrau ; da rappresentarsi al teatro Rossini di Venezia carnevale 1878. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Legal notice--p. 2. Revi... More

Eremitaggio di Liverpool. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Napoli

Eremitaggio di Liverpool. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Napoli

poesia del signor Giuseppe Checcherini ; musica del maestro signor Gaetano Donizetti. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Work is a revision of "Emilia di Liverpool"--New Grove. Attori: CL... More

Marco Visconti. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Torino

Marco Visconti. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Torino

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "L'autore"--p. 3-4. "La poesia è di Luigi Toccagni"--p. 6. "La musica è del maestro Nicola Vaccai"--p. 6. "Primo violino e direttore d'orchestra, Gio. Battista Polledro, direttore ge... More

Maometto II. Libretto. Italian. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Maometto II. Libretto. Italian. Public domain libretto, Library of Con...

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; publication date taken from p. 3; "Avvertimento"--p. 6. Libretto by Cesare delle Valle, duca di Ventignano--New Grove. "... da rappresentarsi nel gran teatro La Fenice nel ... More

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Contains photocopies with identifications and comments by Elizabeth Wilk. (General) Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; cover illustration; dedication, signed "Niccolò Minato"--p. [5]-[6]; foreword--p. [7]-[8]; "Argomento"--p. [9]-[12]; scene descriptions--p. [14]; "prologo"--p. [15]-[18].... More

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

die Musik ist von Herrn Mayerbeer [i.e. Meyerbeer]. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. P. 34-37 and 90-91 presumably not filmed; half title--p. 1; signature on p. 1: "Joh. Nepom. Ca[ ]va[... More

The  crowded press interview at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome on October 13, 1959

The crowded press interview at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome on October...

Picryl description: The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of ... More

Parmigianino - The  Young and Elder Goatherd

Parmigianino - The Young and Elder Goatherd

after a drawing by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino, painter, draughtsman and etcher, 1503-1540 (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Parmigiani... More

E. Di Giovanni, George Grantham Bain Collection

E. Di Giovanni, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Edward Patrick Johnson (1878?-1959), a Canadian tenor opera singer who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided b... More

Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska as the Humming Bird Princess in The Sleeping Princess, 1921, Florence Van Damm

Photograph of Bronislava Nijinska as the Humming Bird Princess in The ...

Public domain photograph - dance, dancer, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The court, composed of two American majors and one British Royal Air Force squadron leader, which tried Sicilian civilians for starting a riot resulting in the death of several townsfolk

The court, composed of two American majors and one British Royal Air F...

Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letter from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart

Letter from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart

Holograph letter. The letter has been translated and published: Schiedermair I, 8; Anderson I, 82a; Bauer/Deutsch I, 164. Hologarph letter written by Mozart to his sister, Nannerl. It was composed in Milan and ... More

Finta pazza per amore (ballo comico). 1817

Finta pazza per amore (ballo comico). 1817

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Libretto by Angelo Anelli under pseudonym Giordano Scannamusa--New Grove. "Il presente dramma, qual'è, coll'obbligo d'introdurvi i caratteri degli attori, quali in esso si vedono, e ... More

Huguenots. Libretto. Italian Opera

Huguenots. Libretto. Italian Opera

di Eugenio Scribe ; musica di Giacomo Mayerber[i.e. Meyerbeer] (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Meyerbeer" and "Gli ugonotti" in handwriting on front cover; "Prato, Tipografia Bruzzi, ... More

Alcide al bivio. Libretto. German. Performance: Wien

Alcide al bivio. Libretto. German. Performance: Wien

verfasset von Herrn Abbate Metastasio, K.K. Hof-poeten, und in das Teutsche übersetzt von J.A.C.v.G. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Twelve scenes; pages unnumbered throughout; "Innhal... More

Christoph Willibald Gluck. Ipermestra. Libretto. Italian Opera

Christoph Willibald Gluck. Ipermestra. Libretto. Italian Opera

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Argomento"--p. 1-2; scene descriptions--p. 3. "Compositore della musica, il Sig. Cristoforo Gluck"--p. 4. "Li balli saranno d'invenzione e direzione, del Sig. Gaetano Gr... More

Robert le diable. Libretto. German

Robert le diable. Libretto. German

nach dem französischen Texte von Scribe und De Lavigne ; treu zur Musik von Meyerbeer bearbeitet von Theodor Hell. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Dance movements mentioned. Performers... More

Pirro e Demetrio. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

Pirro e Demetrio. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; frontispiece--p. [1]; librettist's dedication, signed "A.M."--p. 3-6; "Argomento"--p. 7-8; librettist's foreword--p. 9-10; scene descriptions--p. 12; ballet descriptions-... More

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Contains photocopies with identifications and comments by Elizabeth Wilk. (General) Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pirro e Demetrio. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

Pirro e Demetrio. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; frontispiece--p. [1]; librettist's dedication, signed "A.M."--p. 3-6; "Argomento"--p. 7-8; librettist's foreword--p. 9-10; scene descriptions--p. 12; ballet descriptions-... More

Antonino e Pompeiano. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

Antonino e Pompeiano. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

del Bussani ; consacrato all'altezze serenissime del duca Gio: Federico di Bransuich, e Luneburgo, e di madama la duchessa Benedetta Henrichetta nata principessa elettorale palatina. (statement of responsibilit... More

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta libro, altra volta, chiamato Il ballarino. Nuouamente dal proprio auttore corretto, ampliato di nuoui balli, di belle regole, & alla perfetta theorica ridotto: con le creanze necessarie à caualieri, e dame. Aggiontoui il basso, & il soprano della musica: & con l'intauolatura del liuto à ciascun ballo. Ornato di vaghe & bellissime figure in rame

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta libro, altra volt...

Title within engraved architectural border ornamented with vignettes of instrumentalists, a portrait of the author, etc. Head- and tailpieces; initials. The illustrations consist of 10 full-page engravings by G... More

John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.

John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.

Created and "copyright 1896 The Strobridge Lith-Co, Cincinnati & New York." Isham & Graff, sole proprietors. No. 7118. P&P has: copy 1 and copy 2 with pieces missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra [typescript with emendations in red & black penci & ink; [Music Cues]]

Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra [...

From: Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series

Affetti amorosi : canzonette ad vna voce sola poste in musica da diuersi autori con la parte del basso & le lettere dell alfabetto per la chitara alla spagnola raccolte da Giovanni Stefani con tre arie siciliane, & due vilanelle spagnole.

Affetti amorosi : canzonette ad vna voce sola poste in musica da diuer...

For voice and continuo with added guitar tablature. "Alfabetto et intavolatvra"--P. [1]. LC copy imperfect: p. 9-10 and 43-44 wanting.

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, right hand on stairway post]

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing f...

Copyright by Clinedinst, Washington, D.C. Reproduction of painting by John Singer Sargent.

Missarum cum quatuor, quinque & sex vocibus liber nonvs

Missarum cum quatuor, quinque & sex vocibus liber nonvs

Title from cantvs part. For cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, quintus and sextus. The quintus and sextus parts are printed on opposite pages in one partbook. LC copy bound in 1 v. Missa Ave Regina coelorum, a 4 -- ... More

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 altos et 2 violoncelles par P. Tschaikowsky, Op. 70

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 ...

"A la société de Musîque de Chambre à St. Petersburg" (source note)

John Brown and Caruso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

John Brown and Caruso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows John Brown, Business Comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera in New York with opera singer Enrico Caruso. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Madame Butterfly : Fantasia - Public domain portrait print

Madame Butterfly : Fantasia - Public domain portrait print

Cello solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence Walton - Public domain portrait photograph

Florence Walton - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L. Botta - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

L. Botta - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Luca Botta (1882-1917) with a guitar. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Innocenza scoperta (ballo). 1784 - Performance: Milano

Innocenza scoperta (ballo). 1784 - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; dedication--p. 3-4; scene and ballet descriptions--p. 8. "Colla permissione"--title page. "La musica è nuova del Sig. Domenico Cimarosa maestro di cappella napolitano all'a... More

Geraldine Farrar in La Tosca - Public domain portrait painting

Geraldine Farrar in La Tosca - Public domain portrait painting

Title from jacket. Negatives are close variants. Photograph of a painting signed "George Burroughs Torrey." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048148. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Geraldine Farrar... More

Motets of the 17th century in score

Motets of the 17th century in score

Ms., 18th cent., said to be in the hand-writing of Thomas Pinto (1714-1783), whose autograph appears on p. 3, and containing 56, 2 to 4 part motets, etc., with and without continuo, by 24 composers. Twenti-five... More

Disertore per amor figliale (ballo). 1803

Disertore per amor figliale (ballo). 1803

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Argomento"--p. 3: "Mutazioni di scene per l'opera"--p. 7; "Mutazioni di scene per i balli"--p. 8; copy has handwritten notes--p. 8. Libretto by Antonio Gasparini--Opera librettists ... More

Madrigali di Luzzasco Luzzaschi per cantare, et sonare a vno, e doi, e tre soprani

Madrigali di Luzzasco Luzzaschi per cantare, et sonare a vno, e doi, e...

Music is in score with instrumental accompaniment. This copy evidently was at one time in the Wagener collection at Marburg. Preface to Cardinal Poietro Aldobrandino, dated Ferrara, October 1601, signed by Luzzasche.

Fedora. Libretto. German Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Fedora. Libretto. German Opera. Public domain libretto, Library of Con...

nach Sardou's Drama von Arturo Colautti ; Musik von Umberto Giordano ; Deutsch von Ludwig Hartmann. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Half title--p. 1; legal notices--verso of title page... More

Il  secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Il secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Title from canto part. The three parts, canto, tenore and basse, bound in one volume.

Florence waltz - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

Florence waltz - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

H. Witherspoon & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

H. Witherspoon & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows bass opera singer and manager Herbert Witherspoon (1873-1935) with his wife, soprano opera singer Florence Hinkle (1885-1933). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing arts, 20th cenrury, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph - dance, dancer, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - per... More

Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Libretto. Italian

Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Libretto. Italian

del Bussani ; consacrato a ma damoiselle madamoiselle Gras Iggons figlia dell'illustrissimo, & eccellentissimo cavalier Tomaso Iggons inviato estraordinario del rè della Gran Bertagna [sic], appresso la Serenis... More

Crociato in Egitto. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

Crociato in Egitto. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

poesia di Rossi ; musica del signor maestro Giacomo Meyerbeer ; da rappresentarsi nel gran teatro La Fenice nel carnovale MDCCCXXIV [i.e. 1824] (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Protasi... More

Otello. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

Otello. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Argomento"--p. 2. Libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa; work also known as "Il moro di Venezia"--New Grove. "La musica è del signor maestro Giovacchino Rossini"--p. 3. "... More

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

die Musik ist von Herrn Mayerbeer [i.e. Meyerbeer]. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. P. 34-37 and 90-91 presumably not filmed; half title--p. 1; signature on p. 1: "Joh. Nepom. Ca[ ]va[... More

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

versi di Enrico Golisciani ; musica del maestro Giulio Cottrau ; da rappresentarsi al teatro Rossini di Venezia carnevale 1878. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Legal notice--p. 2. Revi... More

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Contains photocopies with identifications and comments by Elizabeth Wilk. (General) Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crociato in Egitto. Libretto. English & Italian

Crociato in Egitto. Libretto. English & Italian

the poetry by Rossi ; the music by Giacomo Meyerbeer ; the translation in easy verse, line for line with the Italian ; with a biographical-notice of Meyerbeer, and particulars relative to the present opera. (st... More

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Contains photocopies with identifications and comments by Elizabeth Wilk. (General) Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naples - Napoli - Public domain American sheet music 1870-1885

Naples - Napoli - Public domain American sheet music 1870-1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[La Bohème, Act II, Sextet], 4 July 1895
John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.

John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.

Created and "copyright 1896 The Strobridge Lith-Co, Cincinnati & New York." Isham & Graff, sole proprietors. No. 7118. P&P has: copy 1 and copy 2 with pieces missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

Parmigianino - The  Young and Elder Goatherd

Parmigianino - The Young and Elder Goatherd

after a drawing by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino, painter, draughtsman and etcher, 1503-1540 (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Parmigiani... More

E. & A. Mele & C., novita per signorà Napoli: Massimo Buono mercato  / / L. Cappiello.

E. & A. Mele & C., novita per signorà Napoli: Massimo Buono mercato /...

Advertising poster for the Naples, Italy, clothing store of Emiddio and Alfred Mele showing a woman looking at herself in a mirror with mannequins in the background.

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 altos et 2 violoncelles par P. Tschaikowsky, Op. 70

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 ...

"A la société de Musîque de Chambre à St. Petersburg" (source note)

Libro primo di Arie passeggiate à vna voce con l'intavolatura del chitarone

Libro primo di Arie passeggiate à vna voce con l'intavolatura del chi...

LC copy bound with: Libro prime di Villanellle à 1, 2 et 3 uoci accommodate per qualsiuoglia strumeuto con l'intavolatura del chitarone et alfabeto per la chitarra spagnola. Roma 1610. Libro primo di mottetti ... More

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i professori d'Organo libro primo

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i pro...

A score of the composer's Libro primo de Canzoni da sonare, of which the following editions (in separate part-books) have been preserved: Brescia, V. Sabbio, 1584. The present ms. is either a transcript from th... More

Photograph of Serge Diaghilev, n.d.

Photograph of Serge Diaghilev, n.d.

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman in a suit. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a suit. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Violenza e costanza. Libretto. Italian

Violenza e costanza. Libretto. Italian

musica del signor maestro don Saverio Mercadante, napoletano. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts. Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola; alternate title "I falsi monetari"--New Grove.... More

Bohème. Libretto. Italian Opera

Bohème. Libretto. Italian Opera

di Giuseppe Giacosa e Luigi Illica ; musica di Giacomo Puccini. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Scene da La vie de Bohème di Henry Murger"--title page; legal notices--p. 2; preface--p... More

Letter from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart

Letter from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart

Holograph letter. The letter has been translated and published: Schiedermair I, 8; Anderson I, 82a; Bauer/Deutsch I, 164. Hologarph letter written by Mozart to his sister, Nannerl. It was composed in Milan and ... More

The Devil of Pisa - theatrical playbill, public domain image

The Devil of Pisa - theatrical playbill, public domain image

Bridgeport Civic Theatre (venue) A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as... More

Ratto d'Elena (ballo). 1805. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Ratto d'Elena (ballo). 1805. Public domain libretto, Library of Congre...

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Mutazioni di scene"--p. VI. Libretto by Giuseppe Foppa; alternate title "L'abitatore del bosco"; work also known as "Amore e non volere essere amante"--Dizionario della musica e dei... More

Caterina di Guisa. Libretto. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Caterina di Guisa. Libretto. Public domain libretto, Library of Congre...

Legal notices--bottom of title page, p. [1] at end; "Avvertimento dell'autore"--p. 3. Libretto by Felice Romani--Dizionario della musica e dei musicisti. "La musica è del Sig. maestro Carlo Coccia"--p. 5. Scena... More

Caterina Cornaro. Libretto. Italian

Caterina Cornaro. Libretto. Italian

di Giacomo Sacchéro ; posto in musica da Gaetano Donizetti. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Legal notice dated 13, 27 August and 18 September 1834 and 25 August 1840--p. 2. Singers' na... More

Nettuno e Egle. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

Nettuno e Egle. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; librettist's dedication signed: Gaetano Sertor--p. 3-5; "Argomento"--p. 6; scene descriptions--p. 9. "Con le debite permissioni"--title page. "La Musica è del celebre maest... More

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

Margherita d'Anjou. Libretto. German & Italian Performance: München

die Musik ist von Herrn Mayerbeer [i.e. Meyerbeer]. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. P. 34-37 and 90-91 presumably not filmed; half title--p. 1; signature on p. 1: "Joh. Nepom. Ca[ ]va[... More

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; cover illustration; dedication, signed "Niccolò Minato"--p. [5]-[6]; foreword--p. [7]-[8]; "Argomento"--p. [9]-[12]; scene descriptions--p. [14]; "prologo"--p. [15]-[18].... More

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

D11171 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyrighted 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4336. Poster consists entirely of text. Forms part of: Minstrel poster co... More

Signorita Galetti and her troupe of the world's greatest performing monkeys

Signorita Galetti and her troupe of the world's greatest performing mo...

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

E. & A. Mele & C., novita per signorà Napoli: Massimo Buono mercato  / / L. Cappiello.

E. & A. Mele & C., novita per signorà Napoli: Massimo Buono mercato /...

Advertising poster for the Naples, Italy, clothing store of Emiddio and Alfred Mele showing a woman looking at herself in a mirror with mannequins in the background.

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i professori d'Organo libro primo

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i pro...

A score of the composer's Libro primo de Canzoni da sonare, of which the following editions (in separate part-books) have been preserved: Brescia, V. Sabbio, 1584. The present ms. is either a transcript from th... More

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing arts, 20th cenrury, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Achille in Sciro (ballo eroico pantomimo). 1806

Achille in Sciro (ballo eroico pantomimo). 1806

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Handwritten note--p. [4] at beginning; "Scene"--p. VI. Librettist unknown. "La musica è nuova di composizione del Sig. maestro Ferdinando Orland"--p. III. "Maestro al cembalo, Sig. V... More

Cenerentola (ballo pantomimo). Scenario. Scenario. Italian. 1825

Cenerentola (ballo pantomimo). Scenario. Scenario. Italian. 1825

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; "Illustrissimi signori" by Antonio Casali dated 17 July 1825--p. [5]-[6] at beginning. Libretto by Gaetano Rossi--New Grove. "La musica è del celebre Sig. maestro Rossini"-... More

Amore e Psiche. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Wien

Amore e Psiche. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Wien

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Argomento"--p. [5]. "La poesia è del Sig. Marco Coltellini, poeta del regio imperial Teatro di Vienna"--p. [6]. "La musica è del celebre Sig. Floriano Gasman, all'attual... More

Emma di Resburgo. Libretto. German. Published in Berlin.

Emma di Resburgo. Libretto. German. Published in Berlin.

von Rossi ; aus dem Italienischen übersetzt vom Kriegesrath May ; Musik von Meyer Beer. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Libretto by G. Rossi--New Grove. Personen: EDMUND. Mad. Schulz -... More

Ratto d'Elena (ballo). 1805. Public domain libretto, Library of Congress

Ratto d'Elena (ballo). 1805. Public domain libretto, Library of Congre...

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. "Mutazioni di scene"--p. VI. Libretto by Giuseppe Foppa; alternate title "L'abitatore del bosco"; work also known as "Amore e non volere essere amante"--Dizionario della musica e dei... More

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

Griselda. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

versi di Enrico Golisciani ; musica del maestro Giulio Cottrau ; da rappresentarsi al teatro Rossini di Venezia carnevale 1878. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Legal notice--p. 2. Revi... More

Storchio, George Grantham Bain Collection

Storchio, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Rosina Storchio (1872-1945), an Italian lyric opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Rostand, George Grantham Bain Collection

Rostand, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French poet and playwright Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1868-1918) who was the author of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac". He is wearing the uniform of the Académie Française. (Source: Flickr Com... More

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

Elena. Libretto. Libretto. Italian, published in Venice

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; cover illustration; dedication, signed "Niccolò Minato"--p. [5]-[6]; foreword--p. [7]-[8]; "Argomento"--p. [9]-[12]; scene descriptions--p. [14]; "prologo"--p. [15]-[18].... More

Elena e Malvina. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

Elena e Malvina. Libretto. Italian - Performance: Milano

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; "Avvertimento dell'autore"--p. 3-4. Libretto by Felice Romani--La musica. "La musica è composta espressamente dal maestro Sig. Carlo Soliva"--p. 5. "Le scene sono nuove, d'... More

Foresta di Hermannstadt. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Napoli

Foresta di Hermannstadt. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Napoli

di Andrea Leone Tottola ; da rappresentarsi nel teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo per quarta opera del corrente anno 1812. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; "L'autore a chi legge"--p. ... More

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Totenberg family photo album B, Italy

Contains photocopies with identifications and comments by Elizabeth Wilk. (General) Public domain image of 19th-century Italy - architecture, historical building, landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictio... More

Donne vendicate. Libretto. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Roma

Donne vendicate. Libretto. Libretto. Italian. Performance: Roma

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Two acts; "Protesta"--verso of title page; dedication signed: Angostino Palombini--p. 3-4. Music by Niccolò Piccinni--New Grove. "Con licenza de' superiori"--title page. "Pittore del... More

Otello. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

Otello. Libretto. Italian Opera - Performance: Venezia

U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; "Alle coltissime dame veneziane ..."--p. 5-8; "Argomento"--p. 9-10. Libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa--New Grove. "La musica é del signor maestro Gioachino Rossini"--p... More

Trionfo di Clelia. Libretto. German. Performance: Wien

Trionfo di Clelia. Libretto. German. Performance: Wien

verfasset von Herrn Abbate Metastasio, K.K. Hof-poeten ; und in das Teutsche übersetzt von J.A.E. v. G. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; pages unnumbered throughout; "Inhalt... More

Domenico Cimarosa. Matrimonio segreto. Libretto. German

Domenico Cimarosa. Matrimonio segreto. Libretto. German

die Musik ist von Cimarosa. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. P. 9 misnumbered as 6. Libretto by G. Bertati--New Grove. Singers' names not given.

Domenico Cimarosa. Infedeltà fedele. Libretto. Italian

Domenico Cimarosa. Infedeltà fedele. Libretto. Italian

di Giambatista Lorenzi P.A. ; da rappresentarsi nell'apertura del real Teatro del Fondo di Separazione ; nella està del corrente anno 1779. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Three acts; ... More

Il  secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Il secondo libro delle canzonette a tre voci

Title from canto part. The three parts, canto, tenore and basse, bound in one volume.

Missarum cum quatuor, quinque & sex vocibus liber nonvs

Missarum cum quatuor, quinque & sex vocibus liber nonvs

Title from cantvs part. For cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, quintus and sextus. The quintus and sextus parts are printed on opposite pages in one partbook. LC copy bound in 1 v. Missa Ave Regina coelorum, a 4 -- ... More

Florence Walton - Public domain portrait photograph

Florence Walton - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows American dancer Florence Walton (1883-1981). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

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