Tamaki Miura performing at the Sylvan Theatre Tamaki Miura performed an aria from Madame Butterfly as part of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/181">opening performance</a> for the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/3">Sylvan Theatre</a> on the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> grounds in June 1917. Miura was a Japanese opera singer who toured Europe and the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008006110/">View original</a>. 6/1/1917 <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890-1919">1890-1919</a>