Peter Cornelius as "Siegfried" – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Peter Cornelius as "Siegfried", a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Peter Cornelius as "Siegfried"
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Posed as Siegfried, the young hero of Richard Wagner's music dramas, this glass negative shows a singer in one of the most demanding heroic tenor parts in the Ring cycle. In the opera, Siegfried reforges the broken sword Nothung and kills the dragon Fafner, a feat that made the role a test of stamina and stage presence. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, supplied news photographs in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the sitter's identification rests on the agency's caption information, which is unverified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 6,476 × 8,866 px · prints to 22 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-34218 |
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