
Costume for Tosca by Erté

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Paul Popper :: Portrait of Czech soprano singer Maria Jeritza
(1887-1982) wearing an ornate costume as she appears in a production of
Puccini’s ‘Turandot’, circa 1926. (Popperfoto / Getty Images) / related post, here

Franz Xaver Setzer :: Maria Jeritza as Turandot, 1926.
The last of Puccini’s operas, Turandot is set in long-ago China. It is
the story of Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the forbidding
Princess Turandot. / src: Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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