Tag: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Callas in color, 1950s-1960s

Photograph of Maria Callas as Violetta, taken by Houston Rogers during a performance of ‘La Traviata’ in London in 1958.
Photograph of Maria Callas as Floria Tosca in Act II of Puccini’s opera ‘Tosca’ at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1964, England. | src and © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Maria Callas, La Traviata, 1958

Houston Rogers :: Photograph of Maria Callas as Violetta, during a performance of ‘La Traviata’ in London, 1958
Maria Callas as Violetta in ‘La Traviata’, 1950s | src Greek Herald
Photograph of Maria Callas in Verdi’s opera La Traviata at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1958, England. | src and © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Lucien Aigner :: Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, in a railway station in Geneva, Switzerland, 1935

{Haile Selassie was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and then emperor until 1974. He was born Tafari Makonnen in 1892, the son of Ras Makonnen, a cousin and close friend of Emperor Menilek II. Selassie was believed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.}