GON3912632: Edith Evans in role / Bridgeman Images

BRQ3912758: Giuseppe de Begnis, Italian bass, in Johann Simon Mayr's 'Il Fanatico per la Musica' / Bridgeman Images

BRQ3912764: Bellini's opera 'I Puritani' with Lablache as Sir Giorgio / 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

PUT3911709: Henry Lytton, in World War I / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911712: Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English violist & composer, 27 August 1886 - 13 October 1979 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911721: Kurt Baum and Salvatore Baccaloni in Tosca / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911723: Delia Reinhardt, German soprano, 27 April 1892 - 3 October 1974 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911724: Mischa Elman, Russian violinist, 20 January 1891 - 5 April 1967 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911726: Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone, in Emperor Jones / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911731: Webster Booth, English tenor / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911734: La Argentinita (Encarnacion Lopez Julves, 1900­45), Spanish Flamenco, 3 March 1898 - 24 September 1945 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911740: Andre Bauge, French actor, 1 April 1893 - 26 May 1966 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911746: Efrem Zimbalist Snr, Russian violinist, 9 April 1890 - 22 February 1985 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911750: Heddle Nash, as David in 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg' - 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg' / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911751: Elisabeth Rethberg, in 1928 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911763: Alexander Wierzbilowicz, Polish cellist / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911764: Bronislaw Huberman & Arturo Toscanini in Palestine, 1937 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911765: Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, 22 December 1858 - 29 November 1924 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911781: Dennis Noble, in Waltzes from Vienna,1931 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3911783: Mischa Maisky, cellist, at home near Brussels. MM: cellist, 10 January 1984 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GON3911796: Coral Browne in 'Jonathan', a play by Melville, Backus, Albert Ernest 'Bean' (1906–1990) / Bridgeman Images

GON3911797: Coral Browne and Roland Culver in 'Simon and Laura' at the Strand Theatre, London, 1954, McBean, Angus (1904-90) / Bridgeman Images

GON3911820: Jessie Matthews in film role / Bridgeman Images

GON3911821: Jessie Matthews in film role / Bridgeman Images

GON3911823: John Gielgud and Jessie Matthews in 'The Good Companions', 1933 film directed by Victor Saville / Bridgeman Images

GON3911825: Florence Desmond, born Florence Dawson, signed portrait / Bridgeman Images

GON3911836: Flora Robson, English actress / Bridgeman Images