GON3912501: Tilla Durieux as Princess Eboli in the tragic play 'Don Carlos' by Friedrich Schiller / Bridgeman Images

GON3912507: Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre (Phaedra) in Jean Racine's tragic play of the same name / Bridgeman Images

GON3912509: Fay Compton in role as Mary, Queen of Scots for The Loves of Mary queen of Scots', signed photo 1923 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912519: Sarah Bernhardt,in role, possibly Tosca / Bridgeman Images

GON3912524: Giovanni Grasso - portrait in overcoat / Bridgeman Images

GON3912525: Hermine Körner - portrait of the German actress and director of film and theatre, 30 May 1878 - 14 December 1960 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912535: Gordon Harker in role as a bus conductor / Bridgeman Images

GON3912537: Ralph Lynn wearing a monocle / Bridgeman Images

GON3912550: Ada Rehan as Portia in William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912554: Margaret Lockwood in role / Bridgeman Images

GON3912558: Walter Hampden, Lily Brayton and E / Bridgeman Images

GON3912560: Ivor Novello as Wu Hoo Git in George C / Bridgeman Images

GON3912561: Margaret Halstan and Harcourt Williams as Juliet and Romeo in William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912566: Raymond Massey / Bridgeman Images

GON3912567: Conrad Veidt in role / Bridgeman Images

GON3912570: Frederic March / Bridgeman Images

GON3912573: Leslie French as Ariel in William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' / Bridgeman Images

GON3912581: Marie Burke, British actress 18 October 1894 - 21 March 1988 / Bridgeman Images

GON3912596: Lewis Waller as King Henry V and Herbert Jarman as 'Michael Williams' in 'Henry V' by William Shakespeare, 1900 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

GON3912608: Jean Forbes Robertson in role as Peter Pan / Bridgeman Images

GON3912622: Scene from Peter Pan by JM Barrie with Dorothea Baird as Mrs Darling, George Hersee as John Darling, W Geoghegan as Michael Darling and Hilda Trevelyan as Wendy Darling / Bridgeman Images

GON3912632: Edith Evans in role / Bridgeman Images

MOX3912768: Rosa Ponselle, Anna Kaskas and Irra Petina, singers with the Metropolitan Opera, listening to an operatic broadcast on the radio / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912783: Kathleen Ferrier, circa 1930s - 1940s / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912789: Ben Davies, Welsh tenor, 6 January 1858 - 28 March 1943 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912793: David George Lloyd, Welsh tenor, 6 April 1912 - 27 March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912801: Mrs Henry Beach reading a book in a garden / Bridgeman Images

MOX3912886: MERRILL, Robert as Valentin in Gounod's Faust, at the Metropolitan Opera, December 1953 American Baritone / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912894: Tom Burke, English tenor / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912895: Giulia & Sofia Ravogli, Italian singers in role / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912897: Canadian (Nelson) Trio with their father / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912899: Marthe Serres, French soprano, in Ginevra by Marcel Delannoy, 1942 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912903: Alfred de Reyghere, Belgian violinist & violist / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912911: Eduard Kandl, German bass c / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912937: Leos Janacek & Otto Klemperer, 30th Sept 1927 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912950: Berta Morena as Brunnhilde in Siegfried, opera by Richard Wagner / Bridgeman Images