Historic Opera

Metropolitan Opera Guild Postcards

These postcards were published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild in the late 1930s and/or early 1940s. All of these postcards are half-toned sepia images. The number appears on the reverse.

Note: This set has been republished in black and white. The sepia cards seen here are part of the earlier printing.

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The complete list of postcards (and their numbers) from this set are:

1 - Lily Pons as Lucia di Lammermoor.
2 - Helen Traubel as Elizabeth in Tannhäuser.
3 - Bidu Sayao as Manon.
4 - Leonard Warren as The Count di Luna in Il Trovatore.
5 - Licia Albanese as Violetta in La Traviata.
6 - Risë Stevens as Carmen.
7 - Salvatore Baccaloni as Dr. Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
8 - Ferruccio Tagliavini as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor.
9 - Cloe Elmo as Amneris in Aida.
10 - Lauritz Melchoir as Tristan.
11 - The Metropolitan Opera House.
12 - Opening Night at the Metropolitan.
13 - Jussi Bjoerling as the Duke in Rigoletto.
14 - John Brownlee as the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro.
15 - Dorothy Kirsten as Violetta in La Traviata. This postcard as well as numbers 11 and 12 identify the subject on the address side.

16 - Eleanor Steber as Marguerite in Faust.
17 - Set Svanholm as Siegfried.
18 - Italo Tajo as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro.
19 - Blanche Thebom as Venus in Tannhäuser.
20 - Lawrence Tibbett as Rigoletto.
21 - Giuseppe Valdengo as Marcello in La Boheme.
22 - Ljuba Welitsch.
23 - Lucrezia Bori as Manon.
24 - Kirsten Flagstad as Brunnhilde in Die Walküre.
25 - Maria Jeritza as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier.
26 - Edward Johnson as Peter Ibbetson.
27 - Giuseppe De Luca as Figaro in The Barber of Seville.
28 - Giovanni Martinelli as Otello.
29 - Ezio Pinza as Don Giovanni.
30 - Rosa Ponselle as Norma.
31 - Elisabeth Rethberg as The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro.
32 - Friedrich Schorr as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger.