Roger Parker - A History of Opera

Illustrations

. Listening to opera in The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)

. Audrey Hepburn at the opera in Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, 1957)

. A reconstruction of the original Orfeo venue in Mantua (Courtesy of the Muse de Musique, Paris)

. Giovanni Carlo Coppolas Le nozze degli dei , etching by Stefano della Bella, 1637 ( The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel / Vera & Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art / The Bridgeman Art Library)

. Renata Pokupi as Irene from Tamerlano at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2010 ( 2010 Royal Opera House / Catherine Ashmore)

. William Hogarth, The Bad Taste of the Town , February 1724 ( Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library)

. William Hogarth, The Castrati , engraved print, 1726 ( Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library)

. Portrait of Rosalie Levasseur, engraving by Nol Pruneau, 1790

. Pauline Viardot as Orphe, carte de visite photograph, 1859 (TCS 25 (Viardot, Pauline), Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University)

. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, portrait by Barbara Krafft, 1819 ( Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien, Austria / The Bridgeman Art Library)

. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, silverpoint drawing by Doris Stock, 1789 ( Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library)

. Papageno from the Leipzig premiere of Mozarts Die Zauberflte , coloured engraving by Johann Salomon Richter, 1793 (Courtesy of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig)

. Sarastro from the Leipzig premiere of Mozarts Die Zauberflte , coloured engraving by Johann Salomon Richter, 1793 (Courtesy of the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig)

. Charles Edward Horn as Caspar in Webers Der Freischtz , London, 1824 ( Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Lessing Photo Archive)

. Wilhelmine Schrder-Devrient as Fidelio in Beethovens opera, lithograph by W. Sauter, 1823 ( akg-images)

. Nineteenth-century portrait of Caroline Ungher (Authors collection)

. Guillaume Tell apple scene rendered in Svres porcelain ( Runion des Muses Nationaux (Svres, Cit de la cramique) / Martine Beck-Coppola)

. Mickey Mouse conducting William Tell in The Band Concert , 1935

. Natalie Dessay as Lucia in Donizettis Lucia di Lammermoor , Metropolitan Opera, 2007 ( Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

. Die Heldentenre , caricature by Gustave Dor, 1860s (Authors collection)