
Betty Fischer, 1919

images that haunt us

Soprano Mary Garden as Salomé in Richard Strauss’s opera at the
Manhattan Opera House in 1909.

The Metropolitan Opera soprano Yvonne d’Arle, New York, May 16, 1921. / source: Satoshi Hirose

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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Atelier Manassé :: Hungarian soprano opera singer Mária
Németh
as Turandot, 1932-34 / src: Nóra Mészöly on Flickr
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Olga Spolarics and Adorja’n von Wlassics)

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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Opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) seated on a lawn, 1915-1920 / src:
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Opera singer Rosa Ponselle with child in baby carriage, 1915-1920 | Bain News Service
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