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| Édouard Manet Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet 1877 oil on canvas Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Max Slevogt Francisco d'Andrade on stage in Mozart's Don Giovanni ca. 1901-1902 oil on canvas Landesmuseum, Hannover |
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| Felix H. Man Rehearsal of the Rhine Maidens, Bayreuth 1931 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Karl Joseph Begas Portrait of singer Karoline Seidler-Wrantizky 1825 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Jacopo Amigoni Il cantante Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) ca. 1752 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Anton Graff Sophie Friederike Seyler as Mérope (in a German translation of Voltaire's play) 1775 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Hermann Krone Dresden opera singer Aloyse Krebs ca. 1855 hand-colored salted paper print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Lovis Corinth Portrait of pianist Conrad Ansorge 1903 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| Thomas Beach Portrait of Sarah Siddons at age 27 1782 oil on canvas Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Moisey Nappelbaum Portrait of dancer Galina Ulanova 1935 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Cecil Beaton Portrait of dancer Galina Ulanova ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| George Hoyningen Huene Greta Garbo 1951 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Edmund Kesting Portrait of dancer Mary Wigman 1930 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Duane Michals Ludmilla Tchérina (dancer) 1964 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Anonymous German Designer Bolshoi und Kirov Stars ca. 1975 poster Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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| Salvador Viniegra Before the Bullfight ca. 1894 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Meander [to Mycetes]:
Oft have I heard your Majestie complain,
Of Tamburlaine, that sturdie Scythian thiefe,
Of Tamburlaine, that sturdie Scythian thiefe,
That robs your merchants of Persepolis,
Trading by land unto the Westerne Isles,
And in your confines with his lawlesse traine,
Daily commits incivill outrages,
Hoping (misled by dreaming prophesies)
To raigne in Asia, and with barbarous Armes,
To make himselfe the Monarch of the East:
Trading by land unto the Westerne Isles,
And in your confines with his lawlesse traine,
Daily commits incivill outrages,
Hoping (misled by dreaming prophesies)
To raigne in Asia, and with barbarous Armes,
To make himselfe the Monarch of the East:
But ere he march in Asia, or display
His vagrant Ensigne in the Persean fields,
Your Grace hath taken order by Theridamas,
Your Grace hath taken order by Theridamas,
Charg'd with a thousand horse, to apprehend
And bring him Captive to your Highnesse throne.
And bring him Captive to your Highnesse throne.
– Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, The First Part, act I, scene i (1590)