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Original – Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise, showing Emma Calvé in the role of Anita. The piece was originally performed in London, Calvé reprised her role from that production for this poster's performance, the French première at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique on 3 October 1895
Reason
A fine image. Does have some of that unrecapturable "new technology is cool" thing - in this case, being able to print photos big, which I believe was very, very new at the time, and hence this probably looked far cooler back then. It's like Fred Ott's Sneeze or how Final Fantasy VII's low-poly 3D character models did not look like total crap at the time. Anyway, this has held up better than a lot of those, and I think Calvé's acting talent is a big reason for it: her pose and expression really sums up her role.
Articles in which this image appears
La Navarraise
FP category for this image
WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator
Reutlinger family; restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]