René Bine is 22 as he writes his accounts of medical school in Vienna in 1904. He's full of observations on professors and fellow studen...

The young René Bine of San Francisco appears to have been very enthusiastic and dedicated to his study of medicine in Vienna in 1905, but n...

The Metropolitan Opera was not the first opera house in New York. There was a smaller, more exclusive one, the Academy of Music, but it cate...

This opera house, now known as Staatsoper Unter den Linden , was destroyed not once, not twice, but three times, only to emerge each time li...

On Monday I posted a card of the Hippodrome in New York. Then I saw that this week's Sepia Saturday theme is theaters (or theatres, dep...

The building we see here was inaugurated in 1778 and named after the church ( Chiesa di Santa Maria alla Scala, built in 1381) that was demo...

The grand old Frankfurt Opera House still stands, although it is now known as the Old Opera, having been replaced by a newer building. The o...

Fritzi Scheff was an opera singer and an actress. She was born in 1879 and made her debut at the Munich Royal Opera in the  title role o...

In case you didn't tune in last week , that's when I posted the card of San Francisco's Golden Gate before the famous bridge was...

This card states that 100,000 people gathered on Christmas Eve, 1910 to hear Luisa Tetrazzini sing at Lotta's Fountain in San Francisco....