images that haunt us
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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Antoni Esplugas Puig ::
Bust portrait of soprano
Ada Adini-Milliet dressed as a Valkyrie: wearing a winged helmet and armour, 1890-1900. Glass plate negative. / src: Europeana
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“I changed my mind. Good luck”. Marlene Dietrich in ‘Morocco’, directed by Josef von Sternberg, 1930 / source: Marlene Dietrich Internet Museum
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Marilyn Stafford Edith Piaf, Paris 1950
“I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.” Edith Piaf
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Opera singer Rosa Ponselle with child in baby carriage, 1915-1920 | Bain News Service
| src: The Library of Congress
Jeanloup Sieff :: Yves Montand, Italy, 1968 / PhotoGravure printed in 1982 by Contrejour (French printers) / src: liveauctioneers
Portrait of singer Nina Simone (uncredited photographer) via poetryconcrete
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