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  1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
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  A Scene from Troilus and Cressida - Angelica Kauffmann
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  A Wilde time 3
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  A. Hamid Arief, c. 1960
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  Adolphe-Joseph-Louis Alizard from Le Charivari
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  Advertisement for the music score of La Bohème, 1895
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  Aida poster colors fixed
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  Al quartiere latino, bozzetto di Adolf Hohenstein per La Bohème (1896) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000086 - Restoration
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  Albert Pierre-René Maignan - Jules Massenet - Ariane
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  Albert Reiss LOC ggbain-25651
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  Alexandre Charles Lecocq - Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino
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  Alexandre Fragonard - Scène de L'orage (Barbier de Séville)
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  Alexandre Lacauchie - Gilbert Duprez as Gaston in Verdi's Jérusalem
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  Alfons Mucha - 1896 - La Dame aux Camélias - Sarah Bernhardt
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  Alfredo Edel - Jules Massenet - Le mage
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  Alice Neilsen's production of Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller
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  Amilcare Ponchielli (before 1886) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO000794 - Restoration
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  Amédée Forestier - Illustrated London News - Gilbert and Sullivan - Ruddygore (Ruddigore)
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  Anna Fernqvist, rollporträtt - SMV - H1 122 - Restoration
• Annie Oakley shooting glass balls, 1894
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  Arizona - 1907 poster
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  Atelier Nadar - Fly scene from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers with Jeanne Granier as Eurydice and Eugène Vauthier as Jupiter, 1887 revival, wide-angle shot
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  Atelier Nadar - Galli-Marié in Bizet's Carmen
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  Atelier Nadar - Jacques Isnardon, Vaudeville
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  Auguste François-Marie Gorguet - poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo's Le roi d'Ys (1888)
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  Barbier, Jules, Nadar, Gallica
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  Bernhardt Hamlet2
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  Big White Fog
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  Bon-Ton Burlesquers2
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  Boris Kustodiev - Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin - Google Art Project
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  Carl Nielsen c. 1908 - Restoration
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  Carloz Schwabe - Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal
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  Caroline Hill as Mirza in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
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  Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, Sherlock Holmes (LOC var 1364) (edit)
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  Charles Gounod (1890) by Nadar
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  Charles Motte - Rossini et Georges IV - la soirée de Brighton
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  Charles-Antoine Cambon - La Esmeralda, Act 3, Scene 2 set
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  Charles-Antoine Cambon - La Esmeralda, Act III, Scene 1 set design (Version 2)
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  Charles-Antoine Cambon - Set design for Act V, Scene 2 of Fromental Halévy's La reine de Chypre
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  Charles-Antoine Cambon - Set design for the première of Rossini's Robert Bruce, Act III, Scene 3
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  CharltonHestonCivilRightsMarch1963Retouched
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  Cherubini, Luigi - Medea - Restoration
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  Chicago Theatre blend
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  Christine Nilsson Nadar
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  Cody-Buffalo-Bill-LOC
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  Colette and Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, 1st scene
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  Colette and Maurice Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, 2nd scene
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  Collina presso Nagasaki, bozzetto di Alexandre Bailly, Marcel Jambon per Madama Butterfly (1906) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000079 - Restoration
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  Colosseum in Rome, Italy - April 2007
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  Composer Rossini G 1865 by Carjat - Restoration
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  Célestin Nanteuil - Jules Massenet - Don César de Bazan
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  Danny Lee Wynter
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  Donald Pleasence Allan Warren edit
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  Dudley Hardy - Poster for His Majesty
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  Elliott & Fry - photograph W. S. Gilbert
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  Elsie Leslie (1899) by Zaida Ben-Yusuf
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  Ethel Smyth
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  Ethel Waters - William P. Gottlieb
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  Eugène Du Faget - Costume designs for Guillaume Tell - 1-3. Laure Cinti-Damoreau as Mathilde, Adolphe Nourrit as Arnold Melchtal, and Nicolas Levasseur as Walter Furst
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  Eugène Du Faget - Costume designs for Les Huguenots - 2. Julie Dorus-Gras as Marguerite, Adolphe Nourrit as Raoul, and Cornélie Falcon as Valentine
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  Eugène Grasset - Jules Massenet - Werther
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  Eva Le Gallienne (mnwp.275003, cropped restoration)
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  Falka - Weir Collection
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  Falstaff 3
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  Fausta Labia, porträtt - SMV - H5 028 - Restoration
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  François-Joseph Bélanger - Set design for Gluck's Alceste
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  Fromental Halévy, L'Éclair score cover - Restoration
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  Gabrielle Ray (c. 1910) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002691 - Restoration
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  Gavin Hamilton - Coriolanus Act V, Scene III edit2
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  George Grossmith as Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (1881)
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  George Romney - William Shakespeare - The Tempest Act I, Scene 1
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  George Sand by Nadar, 1864
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  Georges Rochegrosse - Henry Février - Henri Cain and Louis Payen after Victorien Sardou - Gismonda
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  Georges Rochegrosse - Jules Massenet - Roma
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  Georges Rochegrosse - Poster for Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope (1913)
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  Georges Rochegrosse - Poster for the prèmiere of Claude Debussy and Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande
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  Georges Rochegrosse's poster for Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte
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  Geraldine Ulmar in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado - photograph only
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  Giacomo Puccini (1924) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO003293 - Restoration
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  Gilbert Duprez & Rosine Stoltz in Donizetti's La Favorite
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  Giuseppe Barberis - Carlo Cornaglia - Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo at La Scala
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  Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanna d'Arco, Vocal Score - Restoration
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  Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata title page - Restoration
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  Giuseppe Verdi, Lombardi alla prima crociata. Libretto, 1843 - Restoration
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  Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto, Vocal score illustration by Roberto Focosi - Restoration
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  Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra first edition libretto for the 1881 revision of the opera - Restoration
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  Giuseppe Verdi, Un Ballo in maschera, Vocal score frontispiece - restoration
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  Glad to See You Together
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  Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit
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  H. M. Brock - Gilbert and Sullivan - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Ruddigore revival 1921
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  H. M. Brock - Poster for Iolanthe
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  H.J. Whitlock - Photograph of Arthur Sullivan
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  Haydée, ou Le secret Act II - Philippe Chaperon
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  Hazel MacKaye and dog by Harris & Ewing
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  Hector Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict score title page - Restoration
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  Hector Berlioz, La Prise de Troie score cover - Restoration
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  Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens vocal score cover - Restoration
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  Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens à Carthage vocal score cover - Restoration
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  Henri C. R. Presseq - Camille Erlanger - Le juif polonais
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  Henry Atwell Thomas - Franz von Suppé - Fatinitza
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  Holger Drachmann, fra Klæbels samling - Restoration
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  Humanité René Philastre and Charles-Antoine Cambon - Set design for the second part of Victor Hugo's Les Burgraves, première production
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  Il signor Tambourossini - Delaroche
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  Il trovatore by Luigi Morgari
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  Illustrated London News - Giuseppe Verdi's Attila at Her Majesty's Theatre, London
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  Iolanthe piano transcriptions by Ernst Perabo
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  Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
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  Ivor Novello
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  Jacques Offenbach - A. Jannin - Robinson Crusoé
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  Jacques Offenbach by Nadar
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  Jean Cocteau b Meurisse 1923
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  Jean de Paleologu - Jules Massenet - Sapho
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  Jeremiah Gurney - Photograph of Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa
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  Jessie Bonstelle, Mishkin, N.Y. - Mishkin LCCN2014684961 (restoration)
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  Johann Strauss II by Fritz Luckhardt
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  John Opie - Winter's Tale, Act II. Scene III
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  John Phillip Sousa - De Wolf Hopper - El Capitan1
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  JohnShea
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  Joseph Albert - Ludwig und Malwine Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Tristan und Isolde, 1865f
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  Jules Massenet - Le Cid 2e Acte, 3e Tableau - L'Illustration
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  Jules Massenet - Le Cid 3e Acte, 6e Tableau - L'Illustration
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  Jules Massenet by Eugène Pirou
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  Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India - Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen - Google Art Project
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  Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph
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  La Juive Act 1 set 1835 - Restoration
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  Le comte Ory - Dubois & chez Martinet - Final scene
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  Leo Tolstoy 1897, black and white, 37767u
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  Lilly Walleni in Daria at Kungliga Operan 1907 - SMV - NV059
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  Lohengrin - Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
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  Long Tack Sam poster by Adolph Friedlander
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  Louis Guéymard as Robert le Diable by Gustave Courbet - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 436015 (cropped)
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  Lucy Arbell as Queen Amahelli in Massenet's Bacchus, wide view
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  Lucy Arbell in Massenet's Thérèse
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  Lucy Arbell photographed by Paul Nadar
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  Luigi Verardi after Dominico Ferri - Gaetano Donizetti - Carrefour de St Jean et Paul. Dans l'Opéra Marino Faliero
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  Luigi Verardi after Dominico Ferri - Vincenzo Bellini - Théatre Royal Italien. Salle d'armes dans l'Opéra I Puritani
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  M. Browne - Herbert Railton - Sydney Grundy - Arthur Sullivan - Haddon Hall
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  Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra (Julie d'Aubigny)
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  Mademoiselle Priola de l'Opéra Comique, rôle de Javotte dans "Le Roi l'a dit" de Delibes
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  Magistrate 1885 - Weir Collection - Restoration
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  Magna Lykseth in Tristan och Isolde at Kungliga Operan 1909 - SMV - GL164
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  Marcel Jambon - Giuseppe Verdi - Otello Act I set design model
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  Maria Carrara Verdi, Barberina Strepponi, Giuseppe Verdi, Giuditta Ricordi, Teresa Stolz, Umberto Campanari, Giulio Ricordi, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1900) - Archivio storico Ricordi FOTO003107 - Restoration
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  Marian Anderson
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  Maritana - Nov 22 1845 Illustrated London News
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  Mary Martin in The Sound of Music by Toni Frissell
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  Mary Pickford cph.3c17995u
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  Max Brückner - Otto Henning - Richard Wagner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung
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  Maxim Gorky LOC Restored edit1
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  Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - Décor Acte II
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  Michael William Balfe - Atelier Nadar
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  Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli2
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  Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
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  Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" - Zaida Ben Yusuf. LCCN2006677585 - Restoration, levels tweaked
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  Nadar - Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) - Google Art Project 2
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  Napoli, strada Acquaquilia, bozzetto di Riccardo Salvadori per A Basso Porto (1894) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON002556
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  Nelly Martyl by Jean Reutlinger (Image 10715)
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  Paul Maurou - Poster for Edmond Audran's Gillette de Narbonne
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  Paulette del Baye - Photograph in Les Modes 75 (1907-03)
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  Percy Anderson - Poster for The Duchess of Dantzic
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  Philippe Chaperon - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots Act I (1896)
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  Philippe Chaperon - Rigoletto
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  Philippe Chaperon by Atelier Nadar
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  Pierre Gaveaux by Edmé Quenedey (1821)
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  Pierre-Auguste Lamy (?) - Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, Giulietta act
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  Pierre-Auguste Lamy (?) - Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, Olympia act
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  Pierre-Auguste Lamy (?) - Les contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach, prologue
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  Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri - Eugène Cicéri - Philippe Benoist - Adolphe Jean Baptiste Bayot - Décorations de théâtre, Robert le diable, 3e act
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  PikiWiki Israel 13773 AIDA AT MASADA 2011
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  Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, by Thomas Lawrence
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  Portrait of Madame Dugazon (Louise Rosalie Lefèvre), in the title rôle of Nina (Scene V)
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  Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
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  Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
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  Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration
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  Poster for Gilbert and Clay's Ages Ago at the Royal Gallery of Illustration
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  Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita
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  Poster for Le pardon de Ploërmel 1859
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  Priscilla Horton (Mrs. German Reed) as Ariel
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  Programme for the première of Ubu Roi
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  Prokofieff (i.e. Prokofiev) LCCN2014708419 Crop 2
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  Prudent-Louis Leray - Poster for the première of Georges Bizet's Carmen
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  Ralph Cleaver - 1904 amateur performance of W.S. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at the Garrick Theatre, London - Image 1
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  Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers
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  Robert Earl Jones in Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to be Free? (23 June 1938; photograph by Carl Van Vechten)
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  Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for A Sensation Novel
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  Robert Jacob Hamerton - Poster for F. C. Burnand and Arthur Sullivan's The Contrabandista
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  Rosa Raisa (1917) - Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002701 - Restoration
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  Rosabel Morrison - Carmen poster
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  Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar, 1864, sepia
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  Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act1 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1871 Cairo - Gallica - Restored
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  Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act4 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1880 Paris
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  Shakespeare's King John at Drury Lane Theatre
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  Sheldonian Theatre Interior, Oxford, UK - Diliff
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  Sir Peter Ustinov Allan Warren
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  Strauss, Richard - Ariadne auf Naxos - Restoration
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  Strobridge & Co. Lith.- Ben-Hur - Klaw & Erlanger's Stupendous Production
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  Taming of the Shrew
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  Tavola 5, bozzetto di Gebrüder Brückner per Tannhäuser (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON011721 - Restoration, crop
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  Teatro Municipal de São Paulo 8
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  The Happy Land - Illustrated London News, March 22, 1873
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  The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. - Bend Her - c.1900
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  The Mikado Chappell Vocal Score cover (c.1895)
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  The Princess - W. S. Gilbert
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  Thespis - Illustrated London News Jan 6 1872
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  Thomas Keene in Macbeth 1884 Wikipedia crop
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  Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
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  Thomas Keene in Richard III 1884 Poster
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  Thos. W. Keene in Hamlet
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  Tom Cobb
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  Tom Taylor by Lock and Whitfield
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  Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom
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  Utopia Limited Poster
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  Vasta spianata presso Courtray, bozzetto di Giuseppe Palanti per Edgar (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000128 B
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  Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880 - Gallica - Restoration
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  Victor Hugo by Étienne Carjat 1876 - full
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  W. H. Kendal as Philamir and Madge Kendal as Zeolide in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
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  Wally (soprano), figurino di Adolf Hohenstein per La Wally (1892) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON004639 - Restoration
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  Wicked World - Illustrated London News, Feb 8 1873
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  Wilhelm - Costume design for Arac, Gunon, and Scynthius (Princess Ida, 1884)
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  William Shakespeare by John Taylor, edited
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  Édouard de Reszke by Nadar (BPL Hale Coll)
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  Émile Bayard - Beaumarchais - Bégéarss in La mère coupable, 1876
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  Émile Bertrand - Jules Massenet - Cendrillon poster

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