Photo Flashback: Leona Mitchell, Renata Scotto, Virginia Zeani, Tito Capobianco

Power Quartet: Tito Capobianco, Leona Mitchell, Virginia Zeani, and Renata Scotto, post-recital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 22, 2014. Details of the evening are after the jump. (Photo: Venetian Arts Society/Facebook)

Photo Flashback: Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle photographed by Christian Steiner.

Photo Flashback: Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti photographed by Fabrizio Ferri.

Photo Flashback: Jessye Norman

In 1998 David Seidner made a series of pictures to honor the John Singer Sargent retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He photographed 18 descendants of the British and American aristocrats whose elegant portraits Sargent painted around the turn of the century. Buy the book here.

Photo Flashback: Juliane Banse

Juliane Banse as Agathe for the 2009 Robert Wilson production of Weber's Der Freischütz in Baden-Baden. (Photo: DPA)