Reminding us of the kind of kids’ storybook viewer into which slot circular wheels of film frames, this similar retro feel device likewise features two eyepieces, and indeed two lenses. Where it ...

'We want to communicate the art of opera hoping that it will engage and interest people who normally don’t go to see performances,' says opera company's manager An Italian opera company will don ...

Question: I have a pair of my great-great-grandmother’s opera glasses. They were given to her by her husband around 1875-1885. The glasses need to be taken apart so the lenses can be cleaned. I am ...

Opera glasses believed to have been used by the wife of American president Abraham Lincoln on the evening he was assassinated have been found 154 years later. Mary Lincoln dropped her ivory binoculars ...

IT is, perhaps, a tribute to the simplicity of early New York that in its precocious experiments with opera no one thought to capitalize the social aspect—which today, no matter’ what happens, assures ...

The opera glasses Abraham Lincoln held when he was fatally shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865 are on the auction block. Lincoln carried the opera glasses to a showing of the play ...

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The story goes that the opera glasses were found in the middle of Tenth Street after the mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln was carried from Ford's Theatre to his deathbed in the Petersen House that ...

The opera glasses Abraham Lincoln was holding when he was shot at a theatre in Washington on Good Friday in 1865 are expected to fetch up to £43,000 at Christie's auction next week. The 16th President ...

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