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Item 148516

Lillian Blauvelt’s opera gloves, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Media: Leather, mother of pearl

Item 17286

Opera singer Lillian Nordica, 1904

Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: 1904 Location: New York; Farmington Media: Photographic print

Item 17283

Opera singer Lillian Nordica and her poodle, Turk, 1894

Contributed by: Nordica Memorial Association Date: 1894 Location: Farmington; Berlin Media: Photographic print

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Rosamond Weston Eddy bookplate, ca. 1925

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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Le Théâtre

Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."

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Cumston Hall Auditorium Seating, Monmouth, ca. 1900

Music in Maine - Opera, Orchestras and Stages

"Opera houses hosted lectures, plays, live music, and movies, with many hosting actual operas, such as The Merry Widow in Lewiston and Faust in…"