MOX3922199: Granados' opera, 'Goyescas', 1916 / Bridgeman Images

BPF3922411: Alfred Deller (seated), Orford Church, 1977, with Harold Lester, harpsichordist / Bridgeman Images

GON3912612: Fred Terry as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel / Bridgeman Images

BPF3921883: Heinz Karl GRUBER, singing with score in 2000 in rehearsal / Bridgeman Images

GAF3912832: Yefim Bronfman Russian-Israeli pianist, Lucerne, Switzerland / Bridgeman Images

BPF3921945: Janet Baker with Steuart Bedford at piano and John Shirley-Quirk (bass baritone) at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 1977 / Bridgeman Images

PUT3912918: Remo Bolognini,Argentine violinist, c. 1938, signed photograph / Bridgeman Images

BPF3913162: Songmakers Almanac rehearsal - Stuart Bedford (piano), Ann Murray (mezzo) and Philip Langridge (tenor), Songmakers Almanac rehearsal, Aldeburgh festival, Snape Maltings, UK, 1998 / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913185: Enrico Caruso in the role of Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Bridgeman Images

LEQ3922189: Chinese girls playing PIPA using Chinese musical notation in Shanghai music school / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913193: Enrico Caruso as Radames in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York in 1908 / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913202: Enrico Caruso painting in the role of Cavaradossiin Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Bridgeman Images

GAF3922464: Alfred Brendel bowing after his piano recital at Lucerne Concert Hall, 2002 / Bridgeman Images

GAF3922487: Gyorgy Ligeti at discussion / Bridgeman Images

GON3913232: Suzanne Després - French actress / Bridgeman Images

LFG3898806: Gombab-E Jabaliye Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Central County, Kerman, Iran, 2016 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LFG3898817: Courtyard Of The Friday Mosque, Central County, Kerman, Iran, 2016 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

GON3913241: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakesepare / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913251: Marcella Sembrich as Violetta in Verdi 's Traviata / Bridgeman Images

LFG3898862: Troglodyte Village, Kerman Province, Meymand, Iran, 2016 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913292: Emma Eames as Tosca in opera by Puccini at New York Metropolitan Opera performance 15 February 1909 / Bridgeman Images

CHH3898963: Frederick Stock, German music conductor and composer, listening to Miss Tillie Strauss and Miss Nina Mickloff play the violin, Chicago, Illinois, c.1930s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913482: Jessye Norman as Ariadne in ' Ariadne auf Naxos ' (Ariadne on Naxos), opera by Richard Strauss / Bridgeman Images

MOX3913490: Joan Sutherland as Gilda, Matteo Manuguerra as Rigoletto and Carlotta Ordassy as Giovanna in Rigoletto by Verdi / Bridgeman Images

DOY3899111: Christopher Timothy playing Pa Joad and Sorcha Cusack as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Chichester Festival Theatre, July 2009. / Bridgeman Images

DOY3899126: Rufus Hound (Playing Garry Essendine) in a scene from Present Laughter by Noel Coward, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, Sussex, United Kingdom. Wednesday 25 April 2018. / Bridgeman Images

LEQ3913522: Early lute / Bridgeman Images

DOY3899144: Tracy-Ann Oberman (playing Monica Reed, right) and Katherine Kingsley (playing Liz Essendine) in a scene from Present Laughter by Noel Coward, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, Sussex, United Kingdom. Wednesday 25 April 2018. / Bridgeman Images

LEQ3913531: INSTRUMENTS - STRINGS - OUD/UD (Arabia/Egypt) Precursor of Lute, still played in Arabia, Egypt, Morocco / Bridgeman Images

DOY3899162: Marcia Gay Harden in the role of The Princess Kosmonopolis aka Alexandra del Lago, in a scene from Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester, West Sussex, England. / Bridgeman Images

LEQ3913816: DOWLAND, John - Lachrimae handwritten score, with signature, written with quill / Bridgeman Images

MOX3914188: Cornell MacNeil in role of Scarpia in opera 'Tosca' by Giacomo Puccini at Metropolitan Opera House, New York / Bridgeman Images

SBA3914277: Carmelite convent, Bethlehem, Palestine (photo) / Bridgeman Images

BPF3923408: Henri Dutilleux studying music score at Aldeburgh Festival, 1985 / Bridgeman Images

GAF3923473: Evelyn Glennie performing at Lucerne, 1999 / Bridgeman Images

BPF3923504: Murray Perahia with 'Serenata' , 1986, at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh / Bridgeman Images