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Members of the Dnepropetrovsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre perform Il Trovatore, with a woman in tattered costume singing dramatically at center stage and other actors in period dress.
Title page of Jacopo Peri's Le musiche di Iacopo Peri Sopra l'Euridice, Florence 1600, with black printed text in Italian and a decorative crest in the center.
Idomeneo
Kiri Te Kanawa
Gioachino Rossini
A male lead singer stands center stage with arms outstretched as members of the Dnepropetrovsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre perform The Barber of Seville in period costumes.
Members of the Dnepropetrovsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre perform Otello on stage in elaborate period costumes, with one man gesturing and a woman kneeling, surrounded by a large cast.
Vincenzo Bellini
Giuseppe Verdi
Franz von Lenbach: portrait of Richard Wagner
Black and white portrait of Maria Callas in profile, wearing pearl earrings and her hair pulled back, looking ahead with a slight smile.
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Eugen Jochum
German conductor
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Nelson Eddy
American singer and actor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer

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