Herbert Rose Barraud, 1885

Herbert Rose Barraud :: Sibyl (Sybil) Grey, Leonora Braham and Jessie Bond as the Three Little Maids in ‘The Mikado’, a comic opera of Gilbert & Sullivan. Published by Carson & Comerford, woodburytype, published 1 July 1885.
The librettist William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan are among the most celebrated names of the Victorian stage. Their collaboration lasted from 1871 to 1896 and produced the masterpieces of comic opera, HMS Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1880), The Mikado (1885) and The Gondoliers (1890). The works are collectively known as the Savoy Operas after the theatre that was built for their performances by the impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte in 1881. | src NPG

Karl Andreyevich Fischer**

:: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production

of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: cerca de la cerca and The New York Public Library

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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”