Jean Madeira as Carmen
Lily Pons as Lucia
Mario Del Monaco as Otello
Thais
Cincinnati Summer Opera Pavillion
Yvonne Mounsey as the Siren in the Prodigal Son
Maria Tallchief as Eurydice in Orpheus
Yugoslav Ballet performing in Athens
Yvonne Mounsey as the Siren in the Prodigal Son
Yugoslav Ballet performing in Athens
James Tillinghast
Royal Opera House (Stockholm)
Postcard of Staatsoper Dresden Semperoper, exterior at dusk
Philadelphia Academy of Music
Mozarteum
Parsifal
George Palmer
Moses Smith
Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Teatro alla Scala
Staatsoper Hamburg
Glyndebourne Opera
Monet's Garden at Giverny
Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Countess Almaviva
Lucrezia Bori as Manon
Ferruccio Tagliavini as Faust
Tito Gobbi as Baron Scarpia
Claudia Muzio as Desdemona in Otello
Irene Dalis as Laura in La Gioconda
Zinka Milanov as Elvira in Ernani
Don Carlos, Act IV, Elisabetta's prayer
Royal Opera House (Stockholm)
Juilliard String Quartet
Christa Ludwig as Dorabella
Jarmila Novotna as Violetta
Tito Gobbi as Iago
Aase Nordmo-Lövberg as Amelia
Inge Borkh as Sieglinde
Kurt Baum as Manrico
Ferruccio Tagliavini as Cavaradossi
Kurt Baum as Don Jose
Giuseppe Taddei as Papageno
Lorenzo Alvary as Tristram
Typescript note from secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Teatro alla Scala
Metropolitan Opera House (Old)
George Szell
Tosca
Mozarteum
Royal Opera House (Malta)
Teatro alla Scala
Renata Tebaldi as Tosca
Gladys Swarthout as Carmen
Margot Fonteyn as the Firebird
Rosa Ponselle as Carmen
Postcard of Staatsoper Dresden Semperoper, Konche der Exedra mit Gemälden von Paul Kiessling Drei Grazien, Apollon, und Marsyas
Aldo Protti as Rigoletto
Risë Stevens as Orfeo
Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde
Samuel F. Pratt
La Fenice exterior
J.B. Briggs
Teatro alla Scala
Janet Reed
Yvonne Chouteau as Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Act I
Basilica di Massenzio
Yvonne Mounsey as the Siren in the Prodigal Son
Amelita Galli-Curci
Jorge Bolet
Geraldine Farrar with dachshund
John Lyth
James Adams
Edward L. Stevenson
Architectural model of proposed replacement for Robin Hood Dell
Felsenreitschule at Salzburg Festival
Arena di Verona
Albert Ziegele
Berlin Philharmonic with Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Barry Morell as Rodolfo
Paul Schoeffler as Jochanaan
Eugenio Fernandi as Cavaradossi
Eleanor Steber as Fiordiligi
Nabucco, Act I
Lucine Amara as Nedda
William Olvis as Malcolm
Ferruccio Tagliavini as Des Grieux
William Wildermann as Alvise Badoero
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin
Turandot
Nabucco, Act IV
Turandot
Eleanor Steber as Elsa
Flaviano Labo as Cavaradossi
Turandot
Flaviano Labo as Rodolfo
Gianni Poggi as Cavaradossi
Mario Zanasi as Escamillo
Giorgio Tozzi as Plunkett
Carlo Bergonzi as Canio
