Portrait of Geraldine Farrar as Salomé in Jules Massenet’s Hérodiade. Photo by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, c1915.
… interesting historical side note, Léopold-Émile Reutlinger lost an eye to a Champagne cork in 1930 … photo via
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Fernand Cormon - Portrait of soprano Marcelle Demougeot (Jeanne Marguerite Marcelle Decorne) as Elisabeth from the opera Tannhäuser, 1914.
… via rmn
Hyacinthe Cesare Delmaet & Louise-Emile Durandelle - Apollo Group (Construction of the Paris Opera), c.1865.
… from On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.
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NPG Studios - La Cavalieri (Lina Cavalieri, Italian Opera Star), c.1905.
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