Italian soprano (23 resultados)

Condición: Very good. - Four-page 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide program printed on blue paper. Signed on the title page "Licia Albanese". Additionally signed "Elizabeth Carter". The top corners of the program are bumped & the bottom corners are lightly creased. There is a light crease to the lower half of the program near the spine with a white smudge affecting the first word of the titling. Very good. Program for "A Holiday Musicale and House-Warming" organized by Opera Music Theatre International and The Jersey State Opera. The two organizations are joined by Leroy Neiman and Celeste Holme "in honoring the world renowned opera diva Lucia Albanese and in celebrating a New Beginning for Grand Opera in New Jersey". The ceremony takes place at The Leroy Neiman Opera/Lab Theatre in Newark Symphony Hall and features "a dedication of the Neiman Wall of Fame, displaying performing arts-oriented works of America's foremost artist." Soprano Elizabeth Carter of the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera takes part in the Musicale.Licia Albanese [1909-2014] was an Italian-born American operatic soprano, especially noted for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini. She was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966.…

Schönes Porträtfoto (Aufn. Hans-Joachim Lieske, Hamburg), eigenhändig signiert, in Luisa Miller , Staatsoper Hamburg.

Frühes s/w-Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert.

On 13.5 x 18 cm leaf of cream paper, torn from an autograph album. Good firm signature, rising upwards, and reding 'Toti Dal Monte | 1956'. Nothing else written on either side of the leaf.

Großes Original-Farbporträtfoto (in rotem Kleid, ca. 8°, Verona, 15.8.86) eigenhändig signiert.

Page of album, 20 x 16cm, good condition, signed as follows: " Luisa Tetrazzini | Souvenir de la Saison [au?] Covent Garden - 6.12.1907 | London.". On the verso of the album page there are several unconnected signatures, dating 1900-1923. which I didn'feel would repay research.See IMAGE.

Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. kl. 8°) in Tinte mit Datum, Unterschrift signiert Mardi 24-8-26 - Lettre adresse aux Freres Isola, celebres directeurs de Theatre parisiens. BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto der Sängerin.

s/w-Originalfotoporträtpostkarte, in grüner Tinte eigenhändig signiert (dito : Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. 8 to) mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert an einen Bewunderer mit Dank Leipzig, 1.6.1967 BEILAGE : dazugehöriges Portraitphoto, eigenhändig signiert Euro 55,-).

FOTO, EIGENHÄNDIG SIGNIERT (Rollen-GF).

The two signatures are written one on top of the other, close together, on a leaf extracted from a printed diary, with the bottom of the 'C' of 'Coates' touching the top of the 'e' of 'Tetrazzini'. In good condition, on lightly aged and foxed paper. No other manuscript text. The page (163) has printed on it the dates 'June 29' and (halfway down) 'June 30', and the signatures are beneath the former. On the reverse is a printed poem by 'Louise Chandler Moulton' ('A maiden sits in her bower and sings'). Image on application.…

Großfoto (frühes Porträt in 3/4 Figur, 22 x 16 cm, Ph. Lazaro Sudak, Randmängel ausgebessert) mit 4 eigenhändigen Zeilen, Datum, Unterschrift signiert 1921.

Eigenhändiger Brief (2 S. kl. 8° quer, leichte Knickspur) in Tinte mit Unterschrift signiert - Lettre adresse aux Freres Isola, celebres directeurs de Theatre parisiens. BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto der Sängerin.

Pas de couverture. Condición: Très bon. Nice authentic photo signed in 2015. Size : 15x10.5 cm. Condition : please see scans. Provenance : Gérard Leman collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Pas de couverture. Condición: Bon. Autograph letter signed to the Swiss journalist and musicologist Edouard Muller-Moor (1913-1979). April 12, 1948. Size : 29.5x21 cm. Condition : stains and creases, please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Piece of paper, c. 13 x 8cm, splodge of a black seal, botton left, other marks but text clear and complete: '"Lucia di Lammermoor" | Regnava nel silenzio . . . | Maria Piccolomini'. The recipient has written on the verso: "from herself | recd 26 May 1859 | [signature not deciphered].

Großfoto (frühes Original-Porträt in ganzer Figur, 23 x 15,5 cm, gut erhalten), in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift signiert - um 1920.

Eigenhändiger Brief (2 S. 4°) in Kuli mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.

Albumblatt (lirregulär beschnitten) in Tinte mit Datum eigenhändig signiert 22.12.936 XV - mit Repro-Farbporträtfoto unter bordeauxrotes Passepartout (4 to) gerahmt.

8vo. 1 p. Charming note asking the ticket office of an unspecified opera house to extend two tickets for that evening's performance to the violinist and conductor Romeo Accursi: "Ayez, je vous prie la bonté de remettre au porteur du présent billet, deux places de pit, ou stalles d'enfithéâtre [!] pour ce soir, c'est un ami à M.r Mario et à moi, M.r Accursi - Mille compliments". - Romeo Accursi (1836-1919) met the famous Giulia Grisi early into his career. On 21 April 1858, he played a concert alongside Grisi and Enrico Tamberlik at Salle Herz in Paris. The young Accursi was one of Gioacchino Rossini's favourite performers. - Traces of former mounting. Somewhat stained. …

8vo. 1 page on bifolium. To Auguste-Eugène Vatel (d. 1855), the director of the Théâtre Italien, hoping to obtain a box for the same night: "Si par hazard il vous restait une loge, n'importe où, j'aurais à la placer pour ce soir et je vous en serai bien obligée []". - With a provenance note on verso referencing the French auctioneer Determes: "donné par M. Determes". Former collector's number "19" in pencil. Traces of former mounting on verso; traces of old folds.…

4to. 3 pp. on bifolium. To Charles de Beauregard, editor of "La Gazette de France", concerning a conflict with Auguste Vatel, director of the "Théâtre-Italien" in Paris, who tried to force her to sing "Elisetta" in the opera "Il matrimonio segreto": "Monsieur Vatel, directeur du Theatre Royal Italien, persiste à mettre mon nom sur ses affisches comme devant remplir le rôle de Elisetta dans l'opera Il Matrimonio Segreto. N'étant pas obligée aux termes de mes arrangements de remplir un second rôle, et celui de Elisetta se trouvant dans ce cas, j'ai à plusieurs reprises averti amicablement Mr. le directeur, que je ne pourrais pas l'accepter [.]". Grisi has taken legal actions against Vatel, who has refused to remove her name from the posters: "Vu son obstination, je l'ai fait sommer par ministère de l'huissier de faire disparaître mon nom [.] pour que le public, ne fut plus longtemps induit en erreur [.]". - Giulia Grisi is widely considered one of the leading sopranos of the 19th century. - Somewhat creased.…

8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. To Louise concerning seemingly a picnic or celebration, Grisi and company will bring with them roased chickens, tongue, and bread. If it suits to "Adelino" they will go towards four o'clock, asking the addressees to come over to them and then leave altogether again to the addressee's place: "Nous apporterons avec nous des poulets rôtis et de la langue et du pain, et si Adelino veut bien nous irons vers les quatre heures, voulez vous passer ici! Nous partirons ensemble toute à vous [.]".…

ORIGINAL-PARTITUR (8 SS., 35 x 25,3 cm, gefaltet), in Tinte eigenhändig voll signiert M(archesa) CAETANI DELLA FARGNA nata (geborene) PICCOLOMINI DONO D AMORE.