opera

[Page in Opera, quae Quidem extant, omnia; with mathematical diagram k...

Illus. and text in: Opera, quae quidem extant / Archimedes. Basileae : I. Heruagius, 1544. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 256.

[Title page of Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, with Froben family devi...

Title page in: Opera quae ad nos extant omnia / Hippocrates. Basileae : [Per H. Forbenium et N. Episcopi]. 1546. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress... more

[Kitchen scene from Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera]

Illus. in: Opera di m. Bartolomeo Scappi. Con il discorso funerale che fu fatto nelle essequie di papa Paulo III. [Venetia : M. Tramezzino, 1574?]. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638. This record contains unveri... more

Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, diuiso in due trattat...

This manual is one of the most important documents detailing late-Renaissance Italian court dance. Dancing master Fabritio Caroso (died 1605) describes fifty-four steps, provides rules for style and etiquette, ... more

Recüeil de dances contenant un tres grand nombres, des meillieures ent...

This treatise includes six solo dances for women; eight for men; and seventeen duets for a man and a woman, two women, or two men, all choreographed by French dancer and choreographer, Guillaume-Louis Pecour (c... more

Veduta del Ponte e del mausoleo, ...

Illustration shows a view from the river of the Castel Sant'Angelo with the bridge, Ponte Sant'Angelo, on the right, Rome, Italy. Prominent features identified by letter with corresponding key printed below ima... more

A side box at the opera

"Mrs. Hobart sits stiffly in an opera-box in profile to the left..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of... more

Canone à 8, Vienna, 16 Oct. 1798

Latin

Giovanni in London or Plucking chickens before they are full feathered...

Print shows opera singer, actress, and theater producer Madame Vestris, also known as Lucia Elizabeth Mathews or Lucia Elizabetta Bartolozzi, dressed in breeches, seated between two lascivious young men in a ca... more

Grand pot pouri brillant

cover only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright D... more

Chev. Orazio de Attellis Chs. Fenderich 1843

Print shows Orazio de Attellis Santangelo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, with arms folded over chest, holding sword in right hand, wearing military uniform. Title from item. Caption continues: Marq... more

[Rosalie Henriette Bediez Laborde, full-length portrait of a woman, th...

French opera singer. Identification from woodcut in Ballou's Pictorial, June 25, 1859, page 401. Alternative identifications: Madame Sabonde (cat. 5); Villaume. Scratched on face of plate: 213; Mad. Laborde. Sc... more

[Sesto Benedetti, three-quarter length portrait, facing three-quarters...

Italian opera singer.

[Teresa Truffi, full-length portrait of a woman, slightly to the left,...

Opera singer, actress. Scratched on face of plate: 217; Truffi. Scratched on back of plate: 186. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congre... more

Selections from Leonora, part IV

cover only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright D... more

Ah! With rapture my heart is beating [from] Linda di Chamounix

cover page only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyri... more

Idol mio = Oh return love, aria

English translation by W.J. Wetmore From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In b... more

Ned Buntline's own. Extra. Ned never before has had occasion to get ou...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 120, Folder 23.

Bonner's map of the State of Georgia with the addition of its geologic...

Scale ca. 1:1,150,000. Cover title: Georgia. Hand colored. "Longitude from Washington." "The geological representations entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by W. Thorne Williams ... " Bookplat... more

Jenny Lind in the opera of La Somnambula

Portrait of Jenny Lind, in full costume, on stage with other actors. Title from item. On lower right: Lith of Sarony New York. Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by William Hall ... more

Quartette from the new opera of the "Whig celebration at Lundy's Lane....

Winfield Scott's controversial performance as commander in the War of 1812 battle at Lundy's Lane turned to account by the artist in this parody of the general's candidacy in 1852. The battle of Lundy's Lane ag... more

Plan of castle garden: as arranged for the Italian opera season 1853

Artist: F.B. Helmsmuller. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5194

Sunini

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Italian Opera Singer. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary... more

Sunini

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Italian Opera Singer. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary... more

Gems of the minstrelsy, Perham's opera vocalists

LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by J.S. Paine. Lithograph by J.G. Chandler, Lith., Boston.

Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa Opera Singer

Title from item.

Jauner-Krall

Photograph shows Austrian opera singer Emilie Jauner-Krall, in costume, seated, three-quarter length portrait, facing right. Title from item. No. 1439. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 194... more

Le nouvel Opera / Photographie H.J. à Paris.

Stereograph shows view of the Paris Opera. Title from item. On mount: Vue instantée (Déposé). No. 195.

Mr. W. H. Crisp, Lessee and manager of Crisp's gaiety, New Orleans; Sa...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 175, Folder 17.

Vienna. Opera house

Munich. Opera house

In album: Prague, Innsbruck, Munich, Nuremberg, Dresden, Berlin, Hombourg, Edinburgh, p. 162. No. 305.

Miss Louisa Kellogg. - Singer

Photograph shows portrait of opera singer Clara Louise Kellogg, who first sang in New York City in 1861. No. 2087. Title from item. Photograph taken at approximately the same time as three other portraits in th... more

Clara L. Kellogg

Photograph shows portrait of opera singer Clara Louise Kellogg, who first sang in New York City in 1861. Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Photograph taken at approximately the same time as ... more

Clara L. Kellogg

Photograph shows portrait of opera singer Clara Louise Kellogg, who first sang in New York City in 1861. Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Photograph taken at approximately the same time as ... more

On the road to Saratoga Lake, July 4, 1865 ; Saratoga Lake, July 4, 18...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 July 29, p. 469.

Nielsen

Photograph shows Swedish opera singer Christine Nilsson, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right. Title from item. No. 1111. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference co... more

Mallinger

Photograph shows Mathilda Mallinger, Austrian opera singer, in costume, three-quarter length portrait, facing front. Title from item. No. 1106. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Refer... more

To the Honorable the Senate and House of representatives of the United...

Bridges. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 19, Folder 43.

[Jean-Baptiste Faure, French opera singer, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Lucca

Photograph shows opera singer Pauline Lucca, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Title devised by Library staff. No. 1100. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Ref... more

Peschka-Leutner

Photograph shows Minna Peschka-Leutner, opera singer, head-and-shouders portrait, facing left. Title from item. No. 1390. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Bell Gallop

Friendly caricature of symphony orchestra illustrated music cover; rehearsal scene with much drinking in evidence; accurate portrait heads of individuals. LOT subdivision subject: Music and Musical Instruments.... more

New York City - The Orange Riot of July 12th - view on Eighth Avenue l...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 July 29, pp. 328-329.

Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa Opera Singer

Title from item.

Darkness was o'er the land

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)

Graphic Statue No. 58 - The Genius of Opera Bouffe / Th. Nast.

Caricature of Jacques Offenbach conducting; captioned with complimentary poem.

Birch, Wambold & Backus, San Francisco Minstrels from their Opera Hous...

I5195 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted by H.A. Thomas." Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y." San Francisco Minstrels consist of Billy Birch, Dave Wambold, and Charles Backus. Forms part o... more

Saville English Opera Company

K14810(?) U.S. Copyright Office Color version of poster: POS - TH OPT - .S67, no. 1a (C size). Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas." Poster advertising operet... more

Saville English Opera Company

K14810(?) U.S. Copyright Office B&w version of poster: POS - TH OPT - .S67, no. 1 (C size). Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas." Poster advertising operettas... more

Dottie and Lottie. I've lost my job, Dottie, it was like this : I was ...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

A Missionary hymn

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)

Olivette, overture[cornetts 1st & 2nd]

Imperial Opera house, Ringe-Strasse, Vienna

Exterior view of Austria's Ringe-Strasse opera house with busy street scene in foreground.

Booth's Theatre, two weeks, commencing Monday, Feb. 6, every ev'ng and...

Caption: N.W. Whitney. Created by "Armstrong & Co., Boston & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Facts for the workingmen! As told by Hon. James G. Blaine, at his rece...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 129, Folder 20j.

Map showing the location of Staunton, Va. : showing the railways leadi...

Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. "Crosscup & West Eng. Co., Phila." In pencil in lower left corner: K10729. Includes concentric circles of 100 and 200 mile intervals. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H332 Available a... more

[Paris, France - street scene in front of Opera House; horse-drawn car...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Opera houses France; Carriages & coaches; Buses; France Paris; Shelf. Unident. photog.

[Interior of the café in the opera house, Tʻbilisi, Georgia (Republic)...

James Guthrie Harbord Collection. No. 9053.

The Interior of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, with an Audien...

View from stage toward audience, showing prompter in box at front of stage. Flash-light photo by Ernest Marx. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card... more

[Avenue de la opera (i.e. Rue de Rivoli) and the garden of the Tuileri...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "17314". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Fran... more

Firenze - la loggia di Mercato Nuovo (Opera di Giov. Attt. del Tasso, ...

Title from item. No. 2459. Written on back: Florence, Italy. Loggia of the New Market, work of G. B. del Tasso (1549-51).

[Opera House, Frankfort on Main (i.e. Frankfurt am Main), Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "9644". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Opera House, the foyer, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6948". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... more

[The Opera House, the grand staircase, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8019". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... more

[Opera House staircase, Paris, France]

Title from identifying information provided by the Flickr Commons project, 2009. (Print not listed in the Detroit Publishing Company, Catalogue J, 1905.) Additional information about this print might be availab... more

[Exterior of Paris Opera House]

[Opera house, Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Title on piece: Wiesbaden. Das Königl. Schauspeilhaus. Print no. "6081". Forms part of: V... more

[The Opera House, interior, Vienna, Austro-Hungary]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "16664". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom pr... more

[The Opera House, Vienna, Austro-Hungary]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6440". Forms part of: Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Photochrom pri... more

[Opera Place, Berlin, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "6798". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Opera House, the inauguration of the opera, Paris, France]

Historic Sites

D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. in Utopia, limited Gilbert & Sullivan's new o...

Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cincinnati & New York." No. 5762. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Metropolitan Opera House Reunion of the Pioneers and Friends of Woman'...

Speakers highlight women's progress in religion, education, philanthropy, art, medicine, suffrage

Anton Seidl

Half lgth., facing right. Photoprint copyrighted by Amie Dupont, N.Y. No. 2. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Francis Wilson under the management of A.H. Canby in the comic opera, ...

Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Francis Wilson under the management of A.H. Canby in the comic opera, ...

Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Grand Opera House, Paris / Alfred S. Campbell.

Pedestrians and carriages in front of opera house. No. 1606.

Grand Opera, the largest theatre in the world, cost six million dollar...

Pedestrians, carriages, and double decker bus in street in front of opera house. No. 10935.

Fred J. Piper, baritone

Illustration shows portrait of African American singer, Fred J. Piper, a member of John W. Isham's company, "Octoroons." Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 85, no. 2183 (1897 July 15), p. 52. T... more

Mrs. Haley says several members of the club occupied a box at the oper...

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

45217 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The hostler's serenade. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8163. Forms part of: Theatrical... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

23d reg'tl. band of the U.S. Kansas Vol. Inf't. 1898 Commanded by Lt. ...

Photograph shows montage of portraits of African American musicians in the 23rd Kansas Volunteer Infantry who served in the Spanish-American War; musicians identified as E.E. Davis, Sergt., E♭ trumpet, Kansas C... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

45218 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Excuse us for dropping in. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8164. Forms part of: Theatri... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

48806 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: A mesage from the Mikado. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8162. Forms part of: Theatrical poster... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

48804 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Put down that bier! Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8160. Forms part of: Theatrical pos... more

The little corporal new comic opera by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Engla...

Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith, Cin'ti & New York." Francis Wilson and Company; Ariel Barney, manager. Signed: By an Old Master, Th. Nast. 1898. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... more

The little Corporal new comic opera by Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Engla...

Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith, Cin'ti & New York." Francis Wilson and Company; Ariel Barney, manager. N.Y. no. 8257. Signed: To Francis Wilson from E.W. Kemble. Forms part of: Theatrical po... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

48805 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Excuse me miss, you dropped something!; I don't like .... Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. Lower righ... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

45227 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The joyful Japanese jag. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8159. Forms part of: Theatrica... more

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

45216 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Playing "to beat the band!" Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8165. Forms part of: Theatr... more

McIntyre & Heath's Comedians the epitome of vaudeville.

64510 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The Young America Quintette: Mattie Boorum, the phenominal girl baritone, Mr. Jack Cranz, Harry Robinson, John P. Fox, Master George Mack. Created and "copyright 1899 by The... more

Howard's sure cure for the blues in three prescriptions and 180 pleasa...

"Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyright 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4197. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The famous original Bostonians America's greatest light opera company.

The famous original Bostonians America's greatest light opera company.

"Barnabee & MacDonald, proprietors, direction of Klaw & Erlanger presenting high class opera comique, unequalled cast, chorus & orchestra." Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 27... more

Fords opera house in which Abraham Lincoln was shot

Photograph showing horses and buggies in front of Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. Title from item.

Sybil Tancredi, opera star

Opera House and American National Bank, Pensacola, Fla.

Chaliapin

Braslau

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia)