#clive barda

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Michael Crawford and the original mausoleum set (with a skull cross base, as a nice nod to Gaston Leroux’s mausoleum chapter)

Design by Maria Bjørnson, photo by Clive Barda for the book ‘The Original Phantom of the Opera’

(my scan, please credit if reposting elsewhere)

[surfingkaliyuga]

Stage adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House, London. Directed by David Alden, with set designs by Paul Steinberg and costumes by Gideon Davey. Photography by Clive Barda.

[swanlake1998]

miyako yoshida photographed performing as the title role in giselle by johan persson, bill cooper, and clive barda

[operafantomet]

Chandelier and Golden Angel, as designed by Maria Bjørnson, and photographed by Clive Barda for the book ‘The Complete Phantom of the Opera’

(my scans, please credit if reposting elsewhere)

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Janet Devenish as Meg Giry in Masquerade

Design by Maria Bjørnson, photo by Clive Barda (I think) for the book ‘The Complete Phantom of the Opera’

(my scan, please credit if reposting elsewhere)

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Alison Townsend, the original Monkey Girl in POTO West End

Photos by Clive Barda and Michael Tylor

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Michael Crawford in the Mausoleum scene in POTO West End, 1986

Photo by Clive Barda

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Sarah Brightman in «Think of Me», 1986

Photo by Clive Barda