Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women
Heavily retouched three-quarter length portrait of Alfa Norman, opera singer and director of the Alfa Norman English Opera Company. She wears her hair piled atop her head; a cross necklace; and a white dress with a white rose pinned to the bustle....
Full-length character portrait of actors John Howson and Marie Johnson in costume for the roles as Bunthorne and Patience in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride." Howson stands with one hand to his head and...
Group portraits; Theatrical productions; Opera houses
Group portrait of the San Carlo Opera Company, a touring company including soprano Alice Nielsen. They appear onstage in New Orleans during Act II of "Carmen," in 1906. Their first appearance at Macauley's Theatre, from that 1906-1907...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of soprano Alice Nielsen standing in front of a set backdrop of a tree, wearing a long white dress and admiring a tree bough she holds before her. Nielsen was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 7, 1876, and died...
WHAS (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.)--History; Radio stations--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Radio broadcasting--Kentucky--Louisville--History
As the historiography on radio broadcasting continues to grow and forces
examination from the macro-level to the micro-level, station histories are becoming
increasingly important. The story of WHAS highlights the evolution of a nationally...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of Hanna Mara costumed for the role of "Kundry" in Wagner's opera "Parisfal" (adapted and produced in English by Henry W. Savage, and performed by Henry W. Savage's Opera Company at Macauley's...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes
Character portrait of left profile of soprano Geraldine Farrar in costume for the role of Gilda in the Verdi opera "Rigoletto," which the Metropolitan Opera Company, of which she was a member, performed at Macauley's Theatre in April...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women
Three-quarter length photogravure portrait of famous opera singer Fritzi Scheff wearing a hat, cape, and muff. Born August 30, 1879 in Vienna, Austria, Scheff gave a command performance for Queen Victoria in 1900 (at age 21), and was decorated. She...
Dance; Dancers; University of Louisville. School of Music; University of Louisville--Students;
Dancers from the University of Louisville's Preparatory Dance Department rehearsing for a performance of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. The opera was performed on April 1 and 2, 1979 by the University of Louisville School of Music's Opera...
Jane Carroll sitting at a piano, singing. Stamped on back of image: July 17, 1928. Attached to the back: Associated Press Photo, From New York; New Metropolitan Opera American Star; Miss Carroll's real name is Helen Howard. She is a daughter of...
Jane Carroll sitting on the arm of a chair. Photograph has been slightly damaged. Stamped on back of image: July 17, 1928. Attached to the back: Associated Press Photo, From New York; New Metropolitan Opera American Star; Miss Carroll's real name...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Musicians; Opera singers; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Ollie Morgan of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a cloche hat and fur collared coat. The photograph has been marked with discolorations and age. Handwritten on bottom, front of image: Cusick. Handwritten on back: Supervisor of Music,...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Women; Opera singers
Portrait of Bianca Turner of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a brimmed hat, curls of hair around her face, and pearl earrings. The photograph has been cut down to size and badly marked with discolorations from age. Handwritten on back of image: Opera...
National parks & reserves; Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887; Rock formations
Rock formation shaped like a chair. Named "Jenny Lind's Armchair" in honor of the opera singer Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale. Lind once sat in this chair at Mammoth Cave Park, Kentucky. A woman wearing a sweater, skirt, and...
Jean Thomas (front, in tam) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified man on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The banner on the cabin reads...
Jean Thomas (center) stands behind a piano with a copy of her book, "Devil's Ditties" (published 1931) propped open on the stand. A man wearing two-toned shoes sits at the piano. He may be Hamilton Forrest, composer. A tall,...
Coe Glade, wearing a suit and hat and holding a fur stole, leans against an unidentified man, wearing a suit and hat and smoking a cigar. They were at Jean Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky, on the occasion of...
Jean Thomas (in tam, holding a broom) with Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left), Ruth Ogden (at right), and an unidentified young man (possibly composer Hamilton Forrest) on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near...
Coe Glade (young woman in suit at left) and Jean Thomas (standing, in tam, at right) pose on the steps of Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. The banner on the cabin reads "American Folk Song Society...
