Images from 19th Century Opera and Theater
(Unrelated to the British Military - Unless One Counts Henry V!)
Wagnerian Cabinet Photographs, Carte de Visites & Real Photo Post Cards
Unidentified
Operatic Singer
as
Woton
c. 1910
Clara Ziegler
as
Brünhilde
c. 1900
Unidentified Operatic
Singer
as
Brünhilde
c. 1900's
Zdenka Fassbender
as
Brünhilde
c. 1909
Anton Van Rooy
as
Wotan
c. 1900's
Rosina Van Dyck
as
Ortlinde

Cabinet Photograph
Aimé Dupont
Photographer

New York City

c 1908
Other Operatic & Theatrical Images
Unidentified Actor
as
MacBeth
c. 1895
German Mediaeval Pageant
Standard Bearer
c. 1890's
Italian 17th Century
Pageanteer
c. 1890's
Marion Hood
as
Joan of Arc
c. 1891
Feodor Chaliapin
as
Don Quixote
c. 1910
Italian 17th Century
Pageanteers
c. 1890's
Italian 17th Century
Pageanteer
c. 1890's
"And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets,
drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor."
                                              Groucho Marx from the 1935 film  A Night at the Opera
"Reed"
in
Brünhild
1878
Alice Tolitz
as
The Maid of Orleans
1903
Viking Ship
from
The Viking
c. 1929
Hans Rüdiger
as
Mime the Dwarf
1910
Unidentified Actress/Singer
in
"Die Schleinzer"
c. 1900
William Farnun
as
Judah Ben Hur
c. 1900
George Rignold
as
Henry V
1875
Margarete Matzenauer
as
Brünhilde
1910
Fritz Feinhals
as
Wotan
1903
Berta Morena
as
Brünhilde
1905
Costume Study
for
Tristan & Isolde
1886
Nancy Valerie
Chanteuse
c. 1890s
Helen Culver
as
Waltraute
1909
Fritz Feinhals
as
Wotan

Cabinet Photograph
Ad. Baumann
Photographer

Munich
Germany

c 1903
Fräulein Landsknecht
c. 1880s
Unidentified Actress
as the
Maid of Orleans
c. 1910s
Therese Malten
as
Brünhilde
1891
Maude Fay?
as a
Walküre
c.1905
Erik Schmedes
as
Siegfried
c.1898
Édouard de Reszkes
as
Hagen
c. 1900
Unidentified Actor
as
Napoleon
c. 1890s
Unidentified Actress
The Mikado
c. 1885
Alfred Wellesley
as
Napoleon
c. 1900