Farrar - "Suor Angelica" – Antique Print
(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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Farrar - "Suor Angelica"
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Soprano Geraldine Farrar appears here in costume as Sister Angelica, the title character of Giacomo Puccini's one-act opera. The work had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in December 1918, with Farrar in the lead role, and she was one of the company's most celebrated stars of that era, so the picture likely dates from around that production. The Bain News Service, a New York picture agency, produced large numbers of news and celebrity photographs, and its glass negatives show how stage performers were presented to the public in the early twentieth century. The record does not give a date, so the link to the premiere is an inference rather than a confirmed fact.
| 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 | 3,672 × 5,053 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-35013 |
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