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Manufacturer: Folm Verlag
Soprano Maria Cebotari: Hand-signed Portrait-Photo by Film-Foto+Verlag, Germany, signed in 1943.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Size: 3,5 x 5,5 inches. Fine condition.
Maria Cebotari (1910 - 1949) was a Bessarabian-born Austrian soprano and actress of Romanian origin.
Born as Maria Cebutaru joined the Moscow Art Theater Company as an actress in 1929. Soon she married the company's leader, Count Alexander Virudov.
Moving to Berlin with the company, she studied singing with Oskar Daniel for three months and made her debut as an operatic singer by singing Mimi in Puccini's opera La Bohème at Dresden Semperoper on 15 March 1931. Bruno Walter invited her to the Salzburg Festival, where she sang Euridice in Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice. This was the beginning of her great carrier.
Cebotari had an extremely versatile voice, and her repertoire covered coloratura, soubrette, lyric and dramatic ones; for example, she sang both Carmen and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata and Salome in the same season. She concentrated on four composers - Mozart, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Puccini.
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