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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Polish opera singer Ganna Walska adorned in operatic costume holding a lyre. Ms. Walska was the second wife of Harold Fowler McCorm... |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | East High School students Beverly Sime, playing the piano, and Frank Hanson, rehearsing for the "Pirates of Penzance" operetta. |
| Date: | 09 12 1949 |
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| Description: | One of the greatest names in opera, soprano Kirsten Flagstad, seated, is pictured with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur W. (Else) Dusenberry, 4327 Regent Street. ... |
| Date: | 06 1904 |
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| Description: | Olivia Goldenberger, who was born in Madison, but went on to perform under the stage name Olivia Monona with the Chicago Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, ... |
| Date: | 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Olivia Monona wearing a costume worn as a chorus member of the Chicago Opera. The image is a photographic postcard she sent to Oscar Hanke, a violinist wit... |
| Date: | 07 24 1956 |
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| Description: | Arthur Roberts, Professor of Physics at Rochester University, demonstrates his other passion in life while seated at a piano. He is in Madison working on a... |
| Date: | 10 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. (Helen) Walter E. Meanwell and Mrs. Edward J. Young attending the opera "Traviata" at the Memorial Union Theater. They are wearing white gloves for th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of opera singer, Olivia Monona (Olivia Goldenberger) likely in costume for an unknown production. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored portrait of Olivia Monona and her singing partner, Menotti Frascona. The pair is jointly holding a newspaper. Ms. Monona is wearing gloves. |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Olivia Monona sitting in a chair in the Goldenbeger home on East Hamilton Street. Bookshelves cover the wall in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Opera singer, Olivia Monona in costume posing on a bench. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Olivia Monona sitting in a carriage with her first husband, Clarence Johnson. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of opera singer Emma Abbott, leaning on a railing. Abbott was one of the most popular American opera performers of the 19th century. She was... |
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