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RMKH91NC–Opera set design for Theatre Grimandi di San Samuele, Venice, Italy: 'La scène de Cristal', 1753.
RME125BG–Sep. 09, 1991 - Fair Cop: Scottish Opera has brought its highly acclaimed Edinburgh Festival production of the Begger's Opera to the Dominion Theater, London. The Opera opened last night for a limited run of only ten days. The Beggers Opera which is based on the low life of eighteenth century London was first performed at the Loncolns Inn Theater in 1728 and is often considered the ancestor of the American musical
RM2GGBGW6–Janet Baker (Alceste) in ALCESTE by Gluck at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London WC2 26/11/1981 music: Christoph Willibald Gluck French libretto: Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet after the Italian libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi conductor: Charles Mackerras set design: Roger Butlin costumes: Michael Stennett lighting: Robert Bryan choreographer: Ronald Hynd director: John Copley
RME12117–Sep. 09, 1981 - ''Modern Highwayman'': Scottish Open has brought its highly acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Production Begger's Opera to the Dominion Theatre, London, The opera opened last night for a limited run of only ten days. The Beggars Opera which is based on the low life of London in the eighteenth century was first performed at the Lincolns Inn Theatre in 1728 and is often Considered the ancestor of the American musical
RM2JE5155–Aristocratic couple in the Opéra in Paris. The young woman wears a 'dressing gown à la française' and has to go through the doorway of the lodge sideways because of her dress with very wide paniers. Her high hairstyle is decorated with feathers. She holds a man's hand and turns to a young man who kisses her other hand as farewell. This series depicts the life of a young lady 'du bon ton' and the French fashion of her time, The Farewell (Les Adieux) Farewell in a theatre lodge Les adieux Costume prints of the end of the eighteenth century (title series) Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de
RMERH7GC–19th century theatre interior, showing the stage, seating, audience and performers. Musical with conductor waving baton for
RMBGFY7Y–Portrait c1897 of a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart rehearsing his XIIth mass. Mozart (1756 - 1791) was a child prodigy.
RMERH8EG–19th century theatre interior, showing the stage, seating, audience and performers. Musical with conductor waving baton for
RMPH5JN0–18th century Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole, opera house and theatre at the Place de la Comédie / Comedy square in the city Metz, Moselle, France
RMERH8MW–Pierre de Fermat. Title page of 'Varia Opera Mathematica'. Published Toulouse, 1679 (posthumous publication of his works).
RFWP5N41–Paris, France. Princess Elisabeth of France leaving the opera. Sister of Louis XVI. 1764-1794. Antique illustration. Book of history. 1897.
RMM1H00B–Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck, 1714 – 1787. Composer of Italian and French opera. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published c.1882.
RF2CFH6NM–margravial opera house Bayreuth Germany Baroque style Unesco World Heritage listed ornate mid eighteenth century construction
RF2HW6JXX–Art inspired by Du Moulin in Peasant Garb Dancing at the Opera, n.d., Etching and engraving, Plate: 11 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (30.3 × 20.2 cm), Jean Berain (French, Saint-Mihiel 1640–1711 Paris), Etching and engraving with a design for a costume for Henri Du Moulin, one of four brothers, Classic works modernized by Artotop with a splash of modernity. Shapes, color and value, eye-catching visual impact on art. Emotions through freedom of artworks in a contemporary way. A timeless message pursuing a wildly creative new direction. Artists turning to the digital medium and creating the Artotop NFT
RMJ48KCN–Gioachino Antonio Rossini, 1792 – 1868. Italian composer. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
RMKH91M0–Opera set design for Theatre Grimandi di San Samuele, Venice, Italy: 'La scène de Cristal', 1753.
RMDE2GN5–'Portrait of the Italian singer Angelika Catalani', late 18th or early 19th century. Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun
RMKD6P02–Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Aria beginning with 'Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso'. Opera libretto, 19th century. Published by Birchall, London, 1824. Austrian composer, 27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791.
RMK2YDYG–Giuseppe Maio / di Majo , composer of ' Sogno d'Olympia / Olimpia,' Naples, 1749 Text by Calzabigi / Calsabigi (1714-1795) Performance; 18th century audience at the Opera. Italian opera composer, 1697-1771.
RM2GGBGRA–Janet Baker (Alceste) in ALCESTE by Gluck at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London WC2 26/11/1981 music: Christoph Willibald Gluck French libretto: Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet after the Italian libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi conductor: Charles Mackerras set design: Roger Butlin costumes: Michael Stennett lighting: Robert Bryan choreographer: Ronald Hynd director: John Copley
RM2HGWHY1–Lorgnette fan mid-18th century Chinese Lorgnette, or opera-glass fans, were in fashion in France during the seventeenth and again during the latter half of the eighteenth centuries.. Lorgnette fan. Chinese. mid-18th century. Paper, ivory, and silk. Fans
RMERGMH4–Achilles after the death of Patrocles. Character design after the production of the opera Achilles, for the Academie Royale de
RM2HHPGKA–The French Comedians ca. 1720 Antoine Watteau French The costumes and repertoire of French comedians was distinct from Watteau’s favored Italian commedia dell’arte. This painting’s principal male figure is dressed in an old-fashioned, formal costume that in the eighteenth century would have been appropriate for a subject from antiquity. Typical of Watteau, however, the scene is entirely imaginary and does not align with any known opera or play. The entrance from backstage of Crispin, a character from the commedia dell’arte, underscores the improbability of the scene. Infrared reflectography sh
RMPH5JNE–18th century Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole, opera house and theatre at the Place de la Comédie / Comedy square in the city Metz, Moselle, France
RM2HH4JCC–Plate ca. 1740 French, Rouen This plate is made of Rouen ware, a distinctive type of faience, or tin-enameled earthenware, produced in the Norman city of Rouen from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth. The elaborate border of floral scrolls on this example surrounds four staves of music simply titled 'Aria.' Although the opera for which the piece was composed has not been identified, its lyric is suited to the pastoral comic genre that was popular in France in the early eighteenth century. It translates as follows: 'Though the world be at war, my soul is still at peace, and in my cave
RMERH80C–Fidelio by Beethoven. Illustration of scene from the opera (Op. 72) and portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer: 17
RMP5670X–Homer (8th Century B.C.). Greek epic poet. Portrait in the Frontispiece and cover of the Complete Works. Volume First. The Iliad. Set in the Trojan War. Amsterdam, 1743. Colored engraving. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Catalonia.
RMFW5NHF–Vivaldi church: Santa Maria della Piet' or della Visitazione, built 1745- 1760 according to the design of Giorgio Massari to replace the 15th century original, on the Riva dei Schiavone (waterfront) of Venice, in which Antonio Vivaldi performed, Venetian composer, 1678-1741.
RMCYJPTE–Homer (8th Century B.C.). Greek epic poet. Frontispiece and cover of the Complete Works. Volume First. The Iliad. Portrait.
RF2CFH4KK–margravial opera house Bayreuth Germany Baroque style Unesco World Heritage listed ornate mid eighteenth century construction
RMBGFX6K–Undated 19th century portrait engraving of prolific and influential Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791).
RMHHPY82–Glyndebourne, UK. 19th January, 2017. Starlight and a mobile phone were used to illuminate Mill Plain on the South Downs, where the remains of an eighteenth century post mill stand alongside the modern wind turbne that helps power world famous Glyndebourne Opera House. Credit: Peter Cripps/Alamy Live News
RMGGDARK–Luigi Lablache, 1794 – 1858. Italian opera singer of French and Irish heritage. Hand writing sample and signature.
RMM1MEGF–Giacomo Meyerbeer, born Jacob Liebmann Beer, 1791 – 1864. German opera composer. From Ward and Lock's Illustrated History of the World, published c.1882.
RM2GGBGR4–Janet Baker (Alceste) in ALCESTE by Gluck at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London WC2 26/11/1981 music: Christoph Willibald Gluck French libretto: Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet after the Italian libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi conductor: Charles Mackerras set design: Roger Butlin costumes: Michael Stennett lighting: Robert Bryan choreographer: Ronald Hynd director: John Copley
![Aaron Hill (1685-1750) - An English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of "Voltaire's Zaire" and "M鲯pe", being adaptations. He also wrote poetry. In addition to Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/G3C277/aaron-hill-1685-1750-an-english-dramatist-and-miscellaneous-writer-G3C277.jpg "Aaron Hill (1685-1750) - An English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of "Voltaire's Zaire" and "M鲯pe", being adaptations. He also wrote poetry. In addition to Stock Photo")
RMG3C277–Aaron Hill (1685-1750) - An English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of "Voltaire's Zaire" and "M鲯pe", being adaptations. He also wrote poetry. In addition to
RMKH90DA–Poro - opera by Handel. Score of final scene. Handwritten. German-English composer, 23 February 1685 - 14 April 1759
RMPH5JKX–18th century Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole, opera house and theatre at the Place de la Comédie / Comedy square in the city Metz, Moselle, France
RM2HH86BG–Two dancers ca. 1760–63 Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory The figures produced by European porcelain factories during the middle decades of the eighteenth century reflect a wide variety of themes, and the various forms of entertainment popular at this time provided a particularly fertile range of subject matter for the factories to explore. Figures from the commedia dell’arte were a primary focus for porcelain modelers (see 54.147.66; 1982.60.300; 1982.60.309) but opera and dance figures also had considerable appeal. The figures of dancers produced at the Ludwigsburg factory during the early 1
RMP4XDJK–Homer (8th Century B.C.). Greek epic poet. Frontispiece and cover of the Complete Works. Volume First. The Iliad. Set in the Trojan War. Amsterdam, 1743. Episcopal Library. Barcelona. Catalonia.
RMFW5NH5–Vivaldi church: Santa Maria della Piet' or della Visitazione, built 1745- 1760 according to the design of Giorgio Massari to replace the 15th century original, on the Riva dei Schiavone (waterfront) of Venice, in which Antonio Vivaldi performed, Venetian composer, 1678-1741. With pink glass lamps on lamp- post.
![Du Moulin in Peasant Garb Dancing at the Opera n.d. Jean Berain French Etching and engraving with a design for a costume for [Henri] Du Moulin, one of four brothers who appeared at the Paris Opera in the early eighteenth century, wearing peasant garb, created by Jean I Berain and published by Mariette. Entrusted with drawings for costumes, stage sets, and royal ceremonies at the 'Academie Royale de la Musique' since 1680, Berain's ingenious creations took acanthus and laurel leaves, palmettes and grotesques, mixing them with dancers, acrobats, monkeys and satyrs, to create his own, imaginative Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2HHGFFH/du-moulin-in-peasant-garb-dancing-at-the-opera-nd-jean-berain-french-etching-and-engraving-with-a-design-for-a-costume-for-henri-du-moulin-one-of-four-brothers-who-appeared-at-the-paris-opera-in-the-early-eighteenth-century-wearing-peasant-garb-created-by-jean-i-berain-and-published-by-mariette-entrusted-with-drawings-for-costumes-stage-sets-and-royal-ceremonies-at-the-academie-royale-de-la-musique-since-1680-berains-ingenious-creations-took-acanthus-and-laurel-leaves-palmettes-and-grotesques-mixing-them-with-dancers-acrobats-monkeys-and-satyrs-to-create-his-own-imaginative-2HHGFFH.jpg "Du Moulin in Peasant Garb Dancing at the Opera n.d. Jean Berain French Etching and engraving with a design for a costume for [Henri] Du Moulin, one of four brothers who appeared at the Paris Opera in the early eighteenth century, wearing peasant garb, created by Jean I Berain and published by Mariette. Entrusted with drawings for costumes, stage sets, and royal ceremonies at the 'Academie Royale de la Musique' since 1680, Berain's ingenious creations took acanthus and laurel leaves, palmettes and grotesques, mixing them with dancers, acrobats, monkeys and satyrs, to create his own, imaginative Stock Photo")
RM2HHGFFH–Du Moulin in Peasant Garb Dancing at the Opera n.d. Jean Berain French Etching and engraving with a design for a costume for [Henri] Du Moulin, one of four brothers who appeared at the Paris Opera in the early eighteenth century, wearing peasant garb, created by Jean I Berain and published by Mariette. Entrusted with drawings for costumes, stage sets, and royal ceremonies at the 'Academie Royale de la Musique' since 1680, Berain's ingenious creations took acanthus and laurel leaves, palmettes and grotesques, mixing them with dancers, acrobats, monkeys and satyrs, to create his own, imaginative
RF2CFH4N8–margravial opera house Bayreuth Germany Baroque style Unesco World Heritage listed ornate mid eighteenth century construction
RM2HH2WPM–Reading glass with two lens (loupe) ca. 1780 French This reading glass with two lenses demonstrates the interest in optical enhancement that took hold during the eighteenth century. Each lens, of different magnification, pivots from the central enameled and gold case. Handheld loupes with one or more lenses were distinct from eyeglasses and opera glasses. Designed to enlarge objects at a short distance from the user, a similar loupe was allegedly carried by Madame de Pompadour to assist her eyesight with reading.. Reading glass with two lens (loupe). French. ca. 1780. Gold, enamel, glass. Meta
RMHHPY83–Glyndebourne, UK. 19th January, 2017. Clear starry night over Mill Plain on the South Downs, where the remains of an eighteenth century post mill stand alongside the modern wind turbne that helps power world famous Glyndebourne Opera House. The scene was lit using only starlight and an iphone. Credit: Peter Cripps/Alamy Live News
RFCP579F–Russia Siberia Novosibirsk. Lenin Square (Ploshchad 'Lenina), Opera Ballet Theatre (Teatr opery Baleta, 1931-45) Monument to
RMGG3HCW–The assassination of Gustavus III by Anckarström at a masked ball at the Royal Opera House, Stockholm, Sweden, 16 March 1792. Gustav III, 1746 – 1792. King of Sweden. Jacob Johan Anckarström, 1762 – 1792. Swedish military officer.
RMAJ7YH5–Design for a production of Mozart's opera 'Die Zauberflote' ('The Magic Flute'), 1816. Artist: Karl Friedrich Schinkel
![Dessiné par L. C. de Mormantelle [i.e. Carmontelle]; gravé par [Jean De] la Fosse. A nineteenth-century version of an eighteenth-century print of Louise Lany, who danced in the 1756 and 1764 revivals at the Paris Opéra of Antoine Bandieri de Laval's opera ballet Les festes d'Hébé. Lany full length to slight left, head in profile, holding a chain of flowers; wearing ball gown trimmed with flowers, heeled shoes. Country setting with farm buildings in background. Five lines of verse in French.; Louis Magdelene Lany pensionaire du roi Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AGHYTC/dessin-par-l-c-de-mormantelle-ie-carmontelle-grav-par-jean-de-la-fosse-a-nineteenth-century-version-of-an-eighteenth-century-print-of-louise-lany-who-danced-in-the-1756-and-1764-revivals-at-the-paris-opra-of-antoine-bandieri-de-lavals-opera-ballet-les-festes-dhb-lany-full-length-to-slight-left-head-in-profile-holding-a-chain-of-flowers-wearing-ball-gown-trimmed-with-flowers-heeled-shoes-country-setting-with-farm-buildings-in-background-five-lines-of-verse-in-french-louis-magdelene-lany-pensionaire-du-roi-2AGHYTC.jpg "Dessiné par L. C. de Mormantelle [i.e. Carmontelle]; gravé par [Jean De] la Fosse. A nineteenth-century version of an eighteenth-century print of Louise Lany, who danced in the 1756 and 1764 revivals at the Paris Opéra of Antoine Bandieri de Laval's opera ballet Les festes d'Hébé. Lany full length to slight left, head in profile, holding a chain of flowers; wearing ball gown trimmed with flowers, heeled shoes. Country setting with farm buildings in background. Five lines of verse in French.; Louis Magdelene Lany pensionaire du roi Stock Photo")
RM2AGHYTC–Dessiné par L. C. de Mormantelle [i.e. Carmontelle]; gravé par [Jean De] la Fosse. A nineteenth-century version of an eighteenth-century print of Louise Lany, who danced in the 1756 and 1764 revivals at the Paris Opéra of Antoine Bandieri de Laval's opera ballet Les festes d'Hébé. Lany full length to slight left, head in profile, holding a chain of flowers; wearing ball gown trimmed with flowers, heeled shoes. Country setting with farm buildings in background. Five lines of verse in French.; Louis Magdelene Lany pensionaire du roi
RM2GGBGW9–rear centre: Janet Baker (Alceste) in ALCESTE by Gluck at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London WC2 26/11/1981 music: Christoph Willibald Gluck French libretto: Marie François Louis Gand Leblanc Roullet after the Italian libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi conductor: Charles Mackerras set design: Roger Butlin costumes: Michael Stennett lighting: Robert Bryan choreographer: Ronald Hynd director: John Copley
RM2AN1RGE–An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . No. 1. No. three thicknesses of the different materials wereglued together and sawn through at one opera-tion. An equal number of figures and ofmatrices or hollow pieces exactly correspondingwere thus produced, and, by countercharging,two or more designs were obtained by the samesawing. These are technically known as bouleand counter, the brass forming the groundwork (Continued on f
RM2J7XEYB–Cecilia Bartoli rehearsing the role of Alminera for a concert performance of RINALDO by Handel at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London EC2 on 15/11/1999
RMKFRBKE–Poro - opera by Handel. Score of final scene. Handwritten. German-English composer, 23 February 1685 - 14 April 1759
RM2CCJP04–THE DUENNA adapted by Lance Mulcahy from the play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan music: Lance Mulcahy set design: Voytek & Mark Wheeler costumes: Malcolm Pride lighting: John B Read directors: Frank Dunlop & Anthony Bowles Amanda Redman (Louisa) The Young Vic, London SE1 11//1983 (c) Donald Cooper
RMKF0HNT–Madame Vestris as Captain Macheath in 'The Beggars' Opera'. Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, English actress, January 1797 – 8 August 1856.
RM2G8M31P–Graham Vick (centre) with cast members at dress rehearsal of HE HAD IT COMING (a new version of DON GIOVANNI by Mozart) at the Birmingham Opera Company, Birmingham, England 15/03/2006 conductor: William Lacey design: Paul Brown lighting: Rupert A Jones director: Graham Vick
RMKE53PG–Title page of the manuscript of Handel's first opera ' Almira '. Published 1704. German-English composer, 23 February 1685 - 14 April 1759
RMPNC769–Edward Shuter, John Beard, and John Dunstall in Isaac Bickerstaffe's 'Love in a Village'. Date/Period: 1767. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,302 mm (51.25 in); Width: 1,651 mm (65 in). Author: Johan Joseph Zoffany.
RMKD6KDB–Mozart's opera Don Juan - Don Giovanni, Vienna Theatre program for December 1867 performance. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian composer,1756-1791.
RMFW5NJ5–Vivaldi baptism church: Church of S Giovanni Battista in Bragora, where Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi was baptised: Campo Bandiera e Moro or De la Bragora, Venice. He was born in a house opposite, March 4th, 1678. Composer of operas, oratorios, sonatas, concertos including The Four Seasons etc. Died 1741. The church is 8th century, reconstructed 9th and 15th centuries.
RMKF0HRC–'Armide' by Christoph Gluck. First score page of the opera of 1777, handwritten by the composer. CG german composer 2 July 1714 - 15 November 1787.
RMCP3XRK–Ukraine - Odessa. The Opera House (designed by the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Gottlieb Helmer, 1884-87)
RM2AN1MJ4–New Castle, historic and picturesque . ler sort of folks. The seating of this church when it was new and first occupied, inthe beginning of the eighteenth century, was a very delicate,troublesome undertaking. For jour pew told your rank, or,your money. I find many votes passed in regard to this business,some of which are unmistakably^ the expression of somebodyspersonal pique; others what, in old-fashioned phrase, was calledthe sense of the meeting. To get a square pew and findthemselves seated in it, gave those earh^ Christians the samesense of superiority and satisfaction that an opera box g
RM2G8M30W–amateur chorus with audience members in KING IDOMENEO by Mozart at the Birmingham Opera Company, The Sherborne Building, Icknield Square, Birmingham, England 12/08/2008 music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto: Giambattista Varesco conductor: William Lacey design: Stuart Nunn director: Graham Vick
RM2B3W32D–GIULIO CESARE music: Georg Frideric Handel libretto: Nicola Francesco Haym conductor: William Christie set design: Robert Jones costumes: Brigitte Reiffenstuel director: David McVicar Sarah Connolly (Giulio Cesare) Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex, England 03/07/2005
RMPPF0MA–Characters in High Life. Artist: James Gillray (British, Chelsea 1756-1815 London). Dimensions: Plate: 13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in. (35.2 x 25 cm) Sheet: 15 1/16 x 10 15/16 in. (38.2 x 27.8 cm). Publisher: Hannah Humphrey (London). Date: June 20, 1795. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
RM2B3W32G–HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE by Rameau after 'Phedre' by Racine conductor: William Christie design: Paul Brown lighting: Mark Henderson choreography: Ashley Page director: Jonathan Kent Sarah Connolly (Phaedra) with the body of Hippolytus floating in the background Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex, England 29/06/2013
RMKF0HWX–Handwritten score of Il Flaminio, 1735. Opera by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, violinist and organist, 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736.
RM2G8C45A–centre: Natale de Carolis (Don Giovanni) in DON GIOVANNI by Mozart at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex, England 15/07/2000 music: Wolgang Amadeus Mozart libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte conductor: Andrew Davis design: Richard Hudson lighting: Jennifer Tipton movement: Ron Howell director: Graham Vick
RMKE5424–Mozart 's Magic Flute - Original manuscript , K620. Opera composed in 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Austrian composer, 27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791.
RMFW5NJ2–Vivaldi baptism church, interior: Church of S Giovanni Battista in Bragora, where Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi was baptised: Campo Bandiera e Moro or De la Bragora, Venice. He was born in a house opposite, March 4th, 1678. Composer of operas, oratorios, sonatas, concertos including The Four Seasons etc. Died 1741. The church is 8th century, reconstructed 9th and 15th centuries
RFCP3XP5–Ukraine - Odessa. The Opera House (designed by the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Gottlieb Helmer, 1884-87)
RM2AN8A3A–The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . Fig. 2G6.—Leaving liie Opera; after Morcau. critics, some of them very hard to please, such as the Chevaliers deMouhy and de la Moliere, who could command the success or failureof any piece or actor. The supremacy of the pit did not long out-live the placing of seats in that part of the theatre, a changewhich was effected in 1782. It is said that this alteration had anunfavourable effect on dramatic art, and Mercier, amongst others,relates that the pit, when seats were provided, went from one 404 THE EIGHTEENTH CE
RMRXHDGJ–The actor Ichikawa Ebizo IV as Takemura Sadanoshin. Toshusai Sharaku ??? ??; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1794. Dimensions: 38.1 x 24.6 cm (15 x 9 3/4 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute.
RM2G8C45E–final scene of DON GIOVANNI by Mozart at Glyndebourne Festival Opera,East Sussex,England 15/07/2000 music: Wolgang Amadeus Mozart libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte conductor: Andrew Davis design: Richard Hudson lighting: Jennifer Tipton movement: Ron Howell director: Graham Vick
RMKE5426–Mozart 's Marriage of Figaro - Original manuscript , K492. Comic opera composed by Mozart, 1786. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Austrian composer, 27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791.
