Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Rosina Brandram (née Moult); Emmie Owen; Florence Perry in 'Utopia Limited' NPG x9395

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alfred Ellis

Utopia, Limited was the penultimate Savoy Opera. Its sharp satire was directed towards capitalism, imperialism and royal scandal. This photograph shows the contralto Rosina Brandram as Lady Sophy, the soprano Emmie Owen as Princess Nekaya and the mezzo-soprano Florence Perry as Princess Kalyba. The English governess, lecturing the Princesses of Utopia on correct behaviour, demonstrates how ladies should 'turn up their little noses' at men. Brandram specialised in playing 'forbidding' female characters. She was the only principal to appear in every original production of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.