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Music Related: Memorabilia: Classical


What's New in the Collector's Showcase of Music Related: Memorabilia: Classical?
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Lot of four autographs by opera singers, sopranos, with US American roots and European careers: Lillian Watson (coloratura soprano, Royal Academy Opera), Patricia Wise (soprano and professor of voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music ), Norma Sharp (Professor of Singing at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin), Lucy Peacock (native Texan, La Scala, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Los Angeles Opera and many of the opera houses). All 4 are real photos ( photo studio imprints at reverse). Each photo is app. 4 x 6 inches. All 4 are in fine condition.  Ruggero Raimondi portrait photo ( embossed Photo studio Fayer, Wien - stamp) signed by Raimondi in Wien in 1985. Size: 4 x 6 inches (10 x 14,7 cm). Very fine condition. Ruggero Raimondi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer and sometime screen actor. He made his debut in Spolet in the role of Colline in La Bohème in the Festival dei Due Mondi. Subsequently an opportunity arose for him at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome when he was called upon to substitute in the role of Procida in I Vespri Siciliani, and he received enormous success from the public and the critics. Raimondi's career soon extended to the major opera houses in Italy (La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Florence) and abroad, beginning with the Glyndebourne Festival (Don Giovanni in 1969). His La Scala debut was as Timur in Turandot in 1968, his Metropolitan Opera debut was as Silva in Ernani in 1970, and his Covent Garden debut was as Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra in 1972. In 1975, he made his Paris Opera debut as Procida, followed by the title role in Boris Godunov, and his Salzburg Festival debut in 1980 as the King in Aida. In 1986, he first directed a production of Don Giovanni, and decided to continue his career as a director as well.  Tenor Peter Schreier Autograph: Color portrait print with authentic signature. Size: 4,1 x 5,8 inches, very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Peter Schreier (born 29 July 1935) is a German tenor and conductor. Peter Schreier made his professional debut in August 1959, playing the role of the First Prisoner in Fidelio by Beethoven. In the years that followed he was successful as Belmonte in Die Entfurhrung aus dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio) and somewhat later as Tamino in Die Zauberfloete (The Magic Flute), both operas by Mozart. In 1963 he was employed by the Berlin State Opera at Unter den Linden. Starting in 1966 he was for many years an annual guest of the Vienna State Opera. That same year he made his debut in Bayreuth as the young seaman in Tristan und Isolde with Karl Boehm as conductor. For 25 years, beginning in 1967, he took part in the program of the annual Salzburg Festival. In 1969, he starred as The Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Haensel und Gretel, in a CD recording that featured the Staatskapelle Dresden. He also sang Loge in Das Rheingold & Mime in Siegfried by Wagner, sang the title role of Palestrina, the opera by Hans Pfitzner, he recorded Bach cantatas with Adele Stolte, Annelies Burmeister, Theo Adam and the Thomanerchor. Recordings of the Bach's St Matthew Passion have included the version conducted by both Rudolf and Eduard Mauersberger, Claudio Abbado and Herbert von Karajan. In June 2000, Schreier left the opera stage. His last role was Prince Tamino in Die Zauberfloete. Throughout his career Schreier has been famous as a singer of German Lieder, including the songs of Schubert and Schumann.  Hermann Prey Autograph on Eurodic Discography-Postkarte, signed 21. 03. 1984. 4,1 x 5,9 inches, fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Hermann Prey (July 11, 1929 – July 22, 1998) was a German baritone. He is renowned as the foremost Figaro of the third quarter of the 20th century. Hermann Prey was born in Berlin and grew up in Nazi Germany. He was scheduled to be drafted when World War II ended. He sang frequently at the Metropolitan Opera between 1960 and 1970 and made his Bayreuth debut in 1965. Although he often sang Verdi early in his career, he later concentrated more on Mozart and Richard Strauss. Prey, a light baritone, was vocally well suited to portray Figaro. He is best remembered for his recitals, his first American recital having been given in 1956. He was a gifted interpreter of Schubert, as well as other Lieder. He also appeared frequently in concert, particularly in the Bach Passions and Brahms' A German Requiem.

Lot of 4 Autographs of Sopranos. $54.00

  

Ruggero Raimondi Autograph from 1985. Co $50.00

  

Tenor Peter Schreier Autograph, Signed P $52.00

  

Hermann Prey Autograph 1984. CoA $38.00
Austrian album with some 50 original signatures by composers, conductors, singers, soloists… The most famous are Placido Domingo, Teresa Berganza, Ferruccio Furlenetto, Katia Ricciarelli, composer Friedrich Cerha, composer Gottfried von Einem, Franco Zeffirelli, Tzimon Barto, John Adams, conductor Horst Stein, Theo Adam, Dame Joan Sutherland and many others. The autographs have been collected in Austria after radio shows with these artists in the 1990s.  Placido Domingo bust shot (real photo by Fayer), hand signed by Domingo in Wien. Size: 3,5 x 5,5 inches, fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. José Plácido Domingo (born 1941) better known as Placido Domingo, is a world-renowned operatic tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice that possesses a ringing and clear tone throughout its range. He is considered as one of the most talented and hardest working musicians with 129 roles in his repertoire (as of November 2007), more than any other tenor. He is also admired for his operatic acting ability, his musicality and keen musical intellect, and the impressive number and variety of opera roles that he has mastered. In addition to his singing roles, he has also taken on conducting opera and concert performances, as well as serving as the General Director of the Washington National Opera in Washington, DC and the Los Angeles Opera in California.  Juan Diego Flórez bust shot from 2002, Vienna. Size: 5 x 7,4 inches. Fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Juan Diego Florez was born in Lima, Peru, on 13 January 1973. In 1993 he went to the Curtis Insitute in Philadelphia, where he remained until 1996, in which period he also received classes from Marilyn Horne at the Santa Barbara Academy Summer School. In 1994, while in Peru for his summer vacations, he met the eminent Peruvian tenor Ernesto Palacio. He took interest in Florez and started giving him advice. Under his supervision, Florez traveled to Italy to study and prepare roles that he were to sing at the Curtis Institute. In April 2000 he was awarded the "Premio Abbiati della Critica" for best singer in 1999, and in July 2000 he received "Rossini d'Oro" prize in Pesaro. Since March 2001 he has been an exclusive recording artist for Decca, and won Germany's Echo award for the Best Operatic Male Recital album. In 2003 he won a Cannes Classical Music Award in the Song and Vocal Recital category.  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Authentic Autograph on a b/w artist postcard. The postcard was made after a signed photograph. So one still can see the earlier signature under the new autograph by Schwarzkopf: Elisabeth Legge Schwarzkopf. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE (1915 – 2006) was a German-born Austrian/British opera singer and recitalist. She was among the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century, much admired for her performances of Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, and Wolf. In 1945, Schwarzkopf was granted Austrian citizenship to enable her to sing in the Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper). In 1947 and 1948, Schwarzkopf appeared on tour with the Vienna State Opera at London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and at La Scala, as the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which became one of her signature roles. Schwarzkopf's association with the Milanese house in the early 1950s gave her the opportunity to sing certain roles on stage for the only time in her career: Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Jole in Handel's Eracle, Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, as well as her first Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and her first Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Piccola Scala. Schwarzkopf made her American debut with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September 1955 as the Marschallin, and her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 19 December 1964, also as the Marschallin.

Album with 50+ Autographs related to Cla $120.00

  

Placido Domingo Autograph. CoA $42.00

  

Juan Diego Florez: Autograph on Color Ph $60.00

  

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Autograph on Photo $130.00
Marcel Prawy portrait print by Austrian weekly, hand signed by Marcel Prawy in the 1980s in Wien. Size: 4,1 x 5,8 inches, very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Marcel Horace Frydmann, Ritter von Prawy (1911 - 2003) was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic. Prawy was born into a Jewish Austro-Hungarian noble family. He became widely known and highly regarded because of a television and radio broadcast series produced by the ORF, where he introduced his viewers and listeners to the world of opera and operetta with outstanding knowledge of the subject matter and marvelous humor. Marcel Prawy maintained close friendships with many prominent singers, composers and musicians, such as Leonard Bernstein and Robert Stolz. He was awarded numerous awards and honours by the nation and internationally, including becoming honorary citizen of Vienna and Miami. Hardly anyone succeeded in picturing opera to his audience as impressively as he did. And thus Prawy became an institution of the Viennese opera as the National Guide to Opera (Opernführer der Nation).  2 old postcard from app. 1915 with portraits of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann. Both after drawings by the same artist. Both have been trimmed, unused. Artist signed GG. 6444 and 6445.  Josep Maria Carreras i Coll, better known as José Carreras, is a Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the opera stage at the age of 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles on the stages of the world's leading opera houses and in the recording studio. He gained fame with a wider audience as one of The Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in a series of mass concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003. Carreras is also known for his humanitarian work as the president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation, which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.  Giulietta Simionato: Tinted photograph (signed by the photographer Liciano Ferri in white) with authentic signature of the young mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,5 x 6 inches Giulietta Simionato (1910–2010) was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966. Simionato was much admired for vibrant singing in a remarkably wide repertoire, excelling in both dramatic and comic roles and in lyric and heavier repertoire. She was in demand at every major opera house and worked with the greatest conductors of the time. She had a special rapport with both of the reigning sopranos of her day, Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, and was widely admired by colleagues and audiences alike for her warmth, sense of humor, and professionalism.

Marcel Prawy Autograph 1980s $70.00

  

Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann vint $12.00

  

Jose Carreras Autograph on Discography C $50.00

  

Giulietta Simionato Autograph on tinted $64.00
Gianni Raimondi private photo from 1975, signed by Raimondi in Wien. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 5 x 3,5 inches, fine condition. Gianni Raimondi (1923 - 2008) was an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. In 1957 Raimondi made his debut at the Vienna State Opera where he continued to perform until 1977. There he sang Alfredo (La traviata), the Duke (Rigoletto), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), and Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera). In 1963 he was Rodolfo to Mirella Freni's Mimí in Franco Zeffirelli's legendary production of La bohème, with Herbert von Karajan conducting. His American debut was at the San Francisco Opera in 1957; he also appeared at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in 1959. He made his Metropolitan Opera début on September 29, 1965, as Rodolfo in La bohème, opposite another débutante, Mirella Freni.  Birgit Nilsson autograph on early portrait postcard pubvlished by Decca ( after a photo by Fayer – a famous Viennese photo studio who specialized in classical musicians). Hand signed. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 3,4 x 5,1 inches. Fine condition. Birgit Nilsson made her operatic debut in 1946 as Agathe in Der Freischütz with only 3 days notice. Nilsson made her breakthrough performance as Lady Macbeth in 1947. Birgit Nilsson was widely known as the leading Wagnerian soprano of her time, the successor to the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, particularly in the role of Brünnhilde. However, she also sang many of the other famous soprano roles, among them Leonore, Aida, Turandot, Tosca, Elektra, and Salome. She had, according to The New York Times, a "voice of impeccable trueness and impregnable stamina". Her career was long and distinguished and continued into the 1980s, when she mostly sang Elektra and the Dyer's Wife.  Lucia Popp: Hand signed b/w portrait photo. 4,1 x 5,8 inches. Very fine condition. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Lucia Popp (1939 –1993) was a notable Slovak operatic soprano. "Miss, you're phenomenal!" cried the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf upon hearing her for the first time. Lucia began her career as a soubrette soprano, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Popp was also a highly-regarded recitalist and lieder singer.  Soprano Helen Donath portrait photo, hand signed in 1973. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,1 x 5,8 inches, fine condition. Helen Donath was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and studied at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi and with Paola Novikova in New York. She debuted as a concert and Lieder singer in New York in 1958. In 1961, she became a member of the Opernstudio in Köln and the Hanover Opera House. In Hanover, she met her husband, the choir master and conductor Klaus Donath. In 1967, she sang Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival, which began a long association with the Festival. From 1970 to 1990, she was a regular member of the Vienna State Opera. She is a sensitive singer with fine diction, while her evenly-placed voice is clear and sweet. With these qualities, she became an ideal interpreter in the Austro-German lyric repertoire. She has performed all over the world including at the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, Covent Garden, La Scala, Barcelona, Paris, Firenze, Tokyo, Berlin, Munich, etc.

Gianni Raimondi Autograph on Photo. CoA $40.00

  

Birgit Nilsson Autograph. Early Decca. C $64.00

  

Lucia Popp: Authentic Autograph on b / w P $38.00

  

Helen Donath Autograph. Signed Photo. Co $38.00
Giuseppe Taddei and Pedro Lavirgen vintage photo from 1974, taken at Vienna States Opera House in 1974, signed by them in 1974. Private photo, light toning. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,9 x 3,5 inches. Fine condition. Giuseppe Taddei (1916 – 2010) was an Italian baritone, who performed mostly the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi. Pedro Lavirgen was one of the best Spanish Tenors. His career started in 1959 and ended in 2001.  Tenor Spas Wenkoff: Hand signed real photo, 4,1 x 5,8 inches. Very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Spas Wenkoff is an Bulgarian tenor who studied in Sofia and Dresden. He gave is debut in 1954. He sang in East Germany (mostly in Dresden) in the 1960s. His breakthrough came with Tristan in Bayreuth 1976 – 83. He also sang the Tristan at the Met in New York in 1981. He was much acclaimed at the Vienna States Opera House in the 1980s.  Baritone Bernd Weikl: Hand signed photo print, 4,3 x 6 inches. Very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Bernd Weikl is an Austrian operatic baritone, best-known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. He studied first in Mainz and then in Hanover, where he made his operatic debut as Ottakar in Der Freischütz in 1968. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the company at the Düsseldorf Opera. Weikl debuted at the Salzburg Festival in 1971 as Melot in Tristan und Isolde, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1972 as Wolfram in Tannhäuser, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1975 as Figaro in The Barber of Seville and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1977 as Wolfram.  Soprano Walburga Wegner: Portrait Photo of the important singer, hand-signed. Hard to find autograph. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 3,4 x 5,4 inches. Very fine condition. Walburga Wegner (b.1913 in Germany) made her debut as a soprano in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos in 1946 and sang extensively in Vienna, Hamburg and La Scala in Milan. At the Met she sang only one season (1951-52, Eva in Meistersinger, Chrysothemis in Elektra). Wegner is unforgettable as Salome (1952 Philips recording -fine performance starring Walburga Wegner and Rudolf Moralt with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra).

Giuseppe Taddei and Pedro Lavirgen Autog $42.00

  

Tenor Spas Wenkoff Autograph: Hand signe $28.00

  

Baritone Bernd Weikl Autograph: Hand sig $30.00

  

Soprano Walburga Wegner Autograph on Pho $80.00
Richard Tauber b/w portrait photo, depicting Tauber in costume, smoking a cigarette. Hand-signed photo from 1930. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 3,4 x 4,5 inches, fine condition. Richard Tauber (1891 –1948) was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang". In 1922, Tauber signed a contract with the Vienna State Opera and appearances with the Berlin State Opera followed; for many years he appeared with both companies — four months with each, leaving four months for concerts and guest appearances with other companies and touring abroad. In 1931, Tauber made his London debut in operetta, and London appearances became a regular event; he also toured the USA in this year. In 1933, Tauber was assaulted in the street by a group of Brownshirts because of his Jewish ancestry, and he decided to leave Germany for his native Austria, where he continued to sing at the Vienna State Opera right up to the Anschluss in March 1938. In the mid-1930s, he made several musical films in England, and at the premiere of her film Mimi in April 1935, he met the English actress Diana Napier (1904?–1982); they were married on 20 June 1936. In 1938, he made his London operatic debut in Die Zauberflöte under Sir Thomas Beecham. Earlier that year, the Germany annexed Austria and Tauber left Austria for good.  Tenor Hans Beirer: b/w photo, depicting the tenor as Tristan at the German Opera Berlin. Real photo, 4,1 x 5,8 inches, studio stamp at reverse, fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Hans Beirer (1911 - 1993) was an Austrian tenor and Kammersaenger with long term engagements at the Deutschen Oper Berlin, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Hamburg States Opera. He was an internationally acclaimed especially for his Richard Wagner parts.  Fiorenza Cossotto:b/w real photo of the famous mezzo soprano. Hand-signed by Cossotto. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4 x 5,8 inches, fine condition. Fiorenza Cossotto is an Italian mezzosoprano. She debuted in 1955 at the La Scala in Milan, Italy. Her Covent Garden debut was in 1959 as Neris in Cherubini's Médée, with Maria Callas in the title role. She made her American debut in 1964. She was awarded the Gold record for her performance of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. In 2005 she celebrated her 70th birthday with a performance of Suor Angelica at the Théâtre Royal in Liège, Belgium.  Leonie Rysanek: Early real photo wit authentic autograph of the famous Austrian soprano Leonie Rysanek. Signature in black ink on 4,1 x 6,1 in photograph. Leonie Rysanek, Austrian dramatic soprano sang with the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years. Rysanek performed more than 2,000 times. She is particularly famed for founding her own singing troupe. Rysanek was famous for an intense acting style that was as accomplished as her singing. She became famous after her Lady Macbeth triumph at the Met. She sang the Sieglinde in Bayreuth seven years before, in 1951. It is a highlight in opera as well as her Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten performances.

Richard Tauber Autograph from 1930. Hand $120.00

  

Tenor Hans Beirer Autograph. Hand signed $28.00

  

Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto Autograph, CoA $35.00

  

Soprano Leonie Rysanek Autograph. COA in $74.00
Ileana Cotrubas: b/w portrait photo, hand signed in 1983 in Wien, Austria. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Ileana Cotrubaş (born1939) is a Romanian opera soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was much admired for her acting skills and facility for singing opera in many different languages. In 1965, Cotrubaş won an important competition in Netherlands where she won first prize in opera, lieder, and oratorio. The following year, she won a radio-television competition in Munich. Those awards, together with her great success in the role of Pamina at Brussels, led to appearances in the Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera and Salzburg Festival, and to a contract with the Frankfurt Opera. Cotrubaş signed a three-year contract with the Vienna State Opera in 1970. In 1973, she made her American operatic debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Mimi. Cotrubaş made her international breakthrough when on January 7, 1975, when she replaced Mirella Freni at La Scala as Mimi. She had to fly from her home in Kent and arrived 15 minutes before curtain time. Her interpretation was acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Cotrubaş made her Metropolitan Opera debut on March 23, 1977, as Mimi in a production with José Carreras and Renata Scotto.  Ottavio Garaventa: Large b(w photo, depicting Garaventa as Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 9,2 x 7 inches, fine condition. Ottavio Garaventa (born 1934) is an Italian lyric-dramatic tenor. He has his greatest success at the Italian Teatro alla Scala, Milano, under George Pretre (La Boheme), Carlos Kleiber (Maria Stuarda) and Claudio Abbado (Simon Boccanegra, Messa da requiem e Macbeth) to name a few.  Soprano Renate Holm: Early autograph in Telefunken promotion photo-postcard. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 3,5 x 5,5 inches, fine condition. Renate Holm was born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany and is a famous lyric soprano and movie actress in German speaking countries.  James King Portrait Photo, ( in Fidelio at the Staatsoper Hamburg), hand signed. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,1 x 5,8 inches. Very fine condition. James King (1925 –2005) was widely regarded as the finest American heldentenor of the post-war period. He started singing as a baritone, but noticed in 1955 that his range was more that of a tenor. He retrained himself as a tenor and won the American Opera Auditions in Cincinnati in 1961. He made his debut as Don Jose in Bizet's Carmen with the San Francisco Opera. He sang the French and Italian repertoire with the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1965 and worldwide at most of the major opera houses, being a particular favorite at the Vienna State Opera, where he last appeared as Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio, in 1997. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1966. He sang at all the major opera houses in Europe and America and recorded extensively. One of his most famous recordings, however, was not in opera, but rather that of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, recorded with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ileana Cotrubas Autograph. Hand signed P $28.00

  

Ottavio Garaventa in Rigoletto. Autograp $25.00

  

Renate Holm Autograph: CoA $25.00

  

James King Autograph: Hand signed Photo. $54.00
Tenor Yordy Ramiro photograph by the Viennese photo studio Fayer, signed by Ramiro in the 1970s in Austria. Size: 3,5 x 5,5 inches. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. The Mexican tenor Yordy Ramiro was born in Acapulco in 1949. After musical training in Mexico City and in Genoa he made his operatic debut in Italy in 1977 with the role of Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, a role he repeated for his debut at the Vienna States Opera, where other leading roles included Alfredo in La Traviata, the Duke in Rigoletto and Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, with Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and the Italian Singer in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Since 1981 Yordy Ramiro has enjoyed an independent career, with appearances in major opera-houses in Europe and in the USA.  Helga Dernesch: b/w portrait photo, hand-signed with a silver pen. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,4 x 5,9 inches. Very fine condition. Helga Dernesch (b. 1939 is an Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano. Critics wrote that: "Her voice had great richness and power, and her strikingly handsome stage appearance and intense acting made her a compelling performer." She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1985 as Marfa in Khovanshchina and subsequently sang Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (1986), Herodias in Salome, Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walkuere, Waltraute in Goetterdaemmerung, and the Nurse Die Frau ohne Schatten. She returned to Met in 1994 for performances as Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites and Adelaide in Arabella, and in 1995 as Leocadia Begbick in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. In 1998 she sang Herodias for the Los Angeles Opera, and in 2009 she appeared as Grandmother Buryjovka in Jenufa at the Bavarian State Opera.  Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Authentic autograph on a Teldec colour photo postcard. Size: 4.1 x 5.9 inches. Fine condition. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, was brought up in Graz and studied music in Vienna. His mother Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the granddaughter of the styrian Archduke Johann. His father Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt studied Engineering, to work in Berlin. Nikolaus Harnoncourt founded Concentus Musicus Wien with his wife, Alice Hoffelner, in 1953 while playing cello with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. That group was dedicated to authentic performances on period instruments, and by the 1970s his work with it had made him quite well known. He subsequently performed with many other orchestras using modern instruments, but still with an eye on historical authenticity in terms of tempi, dynamics and so on. He also expanded his repertoire somewhat, continuing to play the baroque works which had made him famous, but also championing the Viennese operetta repertoire. In recent years, he has made a benchmark recording of the Beethoven symphonies, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In the recent years ( 2001 and 2003 ) he conducted the New Year's Concert in Vienna which is broadcasted all over the word.  Ingrid Bjoner portrait print after an art-work by Liliane Baron. Authentic autograph by Ingrid Bjoner. Size: 3,9 x 5,9 inches (10 x 15 cm). Ingrid Kristine Bjoner Pierpoint (1927 –2006) was a Norwegian soprano who had a prolific international opera career between 1956 and 1990. She was particularly celebrated for her portrayal of Wagnerian heroines and for her performances in operas by Richard Strauss. In addition to performing in operas, Bjoner was an active concert soloist and recital performer throughout her career. In 1964 she was awarded the St Olav's medal by King Olav V of Norway.

Yordy Ramiro Autograph. Signed Photograp $32.00

  

Helga Dernesch Autograph. Hand signed Ph $50.00

  

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Autograph. Famous A $40.00

  

Ingrid Bjoner Autograph: Hand-signed Pri $60.00
Pilar Lorengar as Monon Lescaut at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Hand signed. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,4 x 54,8 in ( 10,5 x 14,7 cm). Fine condition. Lorenza Pilar García Seta (1928 – 1996) was a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano who used the professional name Pilar Lorengar. She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she was known for her full register as well as a distinctive vibrato. Her international opera career started in 1955 at the Festival international d'Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence, where she played Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. She went on to play in London, Glyndebourne and Buenos Aires. In 1958 she signed a contract with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a relationship that would last for thirty years. In 1963 she was distinguished with the title of Kammersänger from the Senate of Berlin. In 1961, she first performed at the Salzburg Festival as Ilia in Idomeneo. She went on to play Desdemona in Otello at the San Francisco Opera, Violetta in La traviata at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera. Through her career she performed in Madrid, Brussels, La Scala at Milan, Liceu at Barcelona, frequently with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera, Paris and even as far away as Tokyo. Her 1985 Zarzuela duet album recorded with Plácido Domingo at the Salzburg Music Festival brought her again to the forefront of Spanish Zarzuela. Her final triumph in Berlin was as Valentine in Les Huguenots. In 1991, the Príncipe de Asturias Foundation awarded the "Generation of Spanish lyric singers" (los Ángeles, Berganza, Caballé, Carreras, Domingo, Kraus and Lorengar) the Arts award. Pilar announced her retirement and performed her last concert at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. In 1994, she was awarded the "Order of Merit" of the State of Berlin.  Birgit Nilsson autograph on a b/w photograph, depicting the Nilsson as Turandot. Hand signed. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4 x 6 inches. Fine condition. Birgit Nilsson made her operatic debut in 1946 as Agathe in Der Freischütz with only 3 days notice. Nilsson made her breakthrough performance as Lady Macbeth in 1947. She attained international stardom after a performance as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on December in 1959. From her point of view her single biggest event in her life was when she was asked to perform at the opening of the 370th season at La Scala as Turandot in 1958. Birgit Nilsson is probably best known for her portrayals of Turandot in Turandot, Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Isolde and Elektra.  Giaccomo Arragall: b/w portrait photo of this famous tenor, hand signed in Wien in the 1970s. Size: 7 x 9,4 inches ( 17,7 x 23,8 cm), fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Jaume Aragall i Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish Catalan tenor, born in 1939. In 1953 he won the Voci Verdi competition in Busseto, made his Italian stage debut at Teatro La Fenice in Verdi's Gerusalemme and his debut at La Scala in the title role of Mascagni's L'amico Fritz. He also sang Il Cavaliere in Paul Hindemith's Cardillac, in January 1964 and Rodolfo in La bohème. The following seasons he sang at opera houses in Budapest, Venice, Genoa, Palermo, Parma, Modena, Naples, Rome and Turin. In 1966 he sang Romeo in a memorable performance of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at La Scala, opposite Renata Scotto and the young Luciano Pavarotti. He reprised the role two years later in his debut with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company. Aragall has appeared in the most important houses in the world in operas including Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, La Favorita, La Traviata, Werther, Faust, Tosca, Manon, Don Carlo, Adriana Lecouvreur, Un Ballo in Maschera and Simon Boccanegra. He has received a number of honours, including the title of Kammersänger at the Wiener Staatsoper, where this photo was signed by him.  Soprano Karan Armstrong: Portrait photo by Fayer, Wien. Hand signed with silver pen. Size: 4 x 6 inchges ( 10 x 14,5 cm). Very fine condition. Karan Armstrong is an American operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the 1960s. In 1966 Armstrong won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions which led to her being engaged by the house as a comprimario singer. She made her debut at the Met on October 2, 1966 as one of the servants in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten under conductor Karl Boehm with Leonie Rysanek as the Empress and Christa Ludwig as the Dyer's Wife. In 1974, Armstrong first appeared in Europe, as Micaëla in Carmen, at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg. The following year, she created a great sensation with her performance of Salome at the same theatre. Armstrong has sung in several operatic world premieres, including Gottfried von Einem's Jesu Hochzeit (as Death), Giuseppe Sinopoli's Lou Salomé, Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto, York Höller's Maître et Marguerite and Siegfried Matthus's Desdemona und ihre Schwestern.

Pilar Lorengar Autograph: Hand signed Ph $50.00

  

Birgit Nilsson Autograph. Hand-signed Ph $62.00

  

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Karan Armstrong Autograph. Signed Fayer $30.00
Eliette von Karajan Autograph: Color portrait photo with authentic, hand written autograph by Eliette von Karajan, the widow of the important conductor Herbert von Karajan. On 22 October 1958 conductor Herbert von Karajan married model Eliette Mouret; they became parents of two daughters, Isabel and Arabel. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 5 x 4 inches. Hand signed in 1993, fine condition.  Bass Herbert Alsen: b/w promotion postcard, hand signed by Herbert Alsen in Wien. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4 x 6 inches, very fine condition. Herbert Alsen was a German opera singer. He was very appreciated in Vienna Staatsoper for his bass voice. From 1957 to his death, he was attendant of Seefestspiele Moerbisch, an operetta festival in the picturesque town of Moerbisch Am See. Herbert Alsen sang then Pogner in Die Meistersinger at the Salzburger Festspiele between 1936 and 193, 1939 the Kasper in Freischuetz, 1939 to 1941 the Bass-Solo in Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9. Symphony. He himself best liked his Gurnemanz in Parsifal, Sarastro in the Magic Flute. Herbert Alsen sang at all major Opera Houses, in New York, London, Milano, Munich, Salzburg, Berlin aso.  Tenor Neil Shicoff: Color promotion postcard, hand signed by Neil Shicoff in Wien. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4 x 6 inches, very fine condition. Neil Shicoff is an American opera singer known for his lyric tenor singing and his dramatic, emotional acting. Neil Shicoff was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, with his father and Franco Corelli in the early 1980s. His professional debut as a tenor lead in a big opera house was in the title role in Verdi's Ernani, conducted by James Levine in Cincinnati in 1975. In 1976, Shicoff made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi conducted by Levine. Shicoff was then engaged by the Met to sing the tenor leads in Rigoletto, La Bohème, Der Rosenkavalier, and Werther, which was to become one of his signature roles. He soon sang in the major opera houses in the U.S. and Europe, winning good notices and recording some of his roles. In 1978, Shicoff married fellow Juilliard graduate, lyric soprano Judith Haddon. After a famously public and acrimonious split from his wife in 1989, Shicoff had an onstage nervous breakdown during a performance of Werther at the Met.  Agnes Baltsa portrait photo ( Studio Fayer ): Hand signed by Agnes Balsa in Wien The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 5,8 x 4 inches. Very fine condition. Agnes Baltsa (Aγνή Mπάλτσα) is a leading Greek mezzo-soprano. She began playing piano at the age of six, before moving to Athens in 1958 to concentrate on singing. She graduated from the Greek National Conservatoire in 1965 and then travelled to Munich to continue studying under a Maria Callas scholarship. Baltsa made her first appearance in an opera in 1968 as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro at Frankfurt Opera, before going on to appear as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera in 1970. Under the guidance of Herbert von Karajan, she soon became a regular at the prestigious Salzburg Festival. She became Kammersaengerin of the Vienna State Opera in 1980. Her most well known performance is that of Carmen by Georges Bizet, which she has sung a number of times with José Carreras.

Eliette von Karajan Autograph. Famous la $58.00

  

Herbert Alsen Autograph. CoA $38.00

  

Neil Shicoff Autograph. CoA $32.00

  

Agnes Baltsa Autograph. CoA $50.00
b/w photo of the young Mimi Coertse. Photo by studio Fayer in Wien. 3,4 x 5,4 inches. Glue remnants at the reverse otherwise fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Mimi Coertse (born 12 June 1932), is a South African soprano. She was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, matriculated at the Helpmekaar Girls High School in Johannesburg. Coertse made her debut in January 1955 as the First Flower girl in Wagner's Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Karl Böhm conducting. She also sang in Basle at the Teatro San Carlo. On 17 March 1956 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte by Mozart and remained with the Vienna State Opera until 1978. Her Covent Garden debut was in 1956, in the same role. Coertse sang the soprano part in Bach's Matthäus-Passion at Fritz Wunderlich's first appearance in Vienna in 1958, when he performed the tenor arias with Julius Patzak singing the Evangelist. In 1958, Coertse and Fritz Wunderlich again worked together at the Aix-en-Provence festival in Die Zauberflöte. In 1965, she sang Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Vienna State Opera which also featured Fritz Wunderlich as Belmonte.  Katia Riciarelli portrait photo with Autograph. Hand Signed b/w Photo. Size: 5 x 7 inches. Red stains at right side ( from a cover it has been sent). The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Katia Ricciarelli (born 1946) is an Italian soprano. She studied at the Benedict Marcello conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in La bohème in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in Il trovatore in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); La Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini's operas. Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze. In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli, and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of the annual summer Macerata Opera Festival.  Giuseppe Taddei. Color portrait photograph with authentic autograph, signed in Wien in 1978. 5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Giuseppe Taddei (born 1916) is an Italian baritone, performing mainly in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi. He made his professional debut in 1936 as the Herald in Lohengrin. He sang at the Rome Opera until he was conscripted into the army in 1942. After the war, he resumed his opera career and appeared for two seasons at the Vienna State Opera. He made his debut in London in 1947, at the Cambridge Theatre. The following year, 1948, saw his debut at the Salzburg Festival, La Scala in Milan, and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. His American debut took place at the San Francisco Opera in 1957, followed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1959. He sang regularly at the Royal Opera House in London from 1960 to 1967. His vocal longevity allowed him to continue singing into old age, including a debut at the Metropolitan Opera, in 1985, as Falstaff, at the age of 69.  George London portrait photo, hand signed. Photo by Eduard Renner. Photo postcard from the Bayreuth Festival 1951, depicting George London as Amfortas. Hand signed. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 3,5 x 5,5 inches. Very fine condition. George London (1920 –1985) was a Montreal-born concert and operatic bass-baritone. Son of a Russian Jewish family he grew up in Los Angeles. After many concerts with tenor Mario Lanza and soprano Frances Yeend as part of the Bel Canto Trio in 1947-48, London was engaged by the Vienna State Opera, with whom he scored his first major success in 1949. In 1950 he sang the role of Pater Profundis in Mahler's Eight Symphony, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. In 1951 he sang at Bayreuth as Amfortas in Parsifal, and reappeared frequently in the 1950's and 60's as Amfortas, the title role of The Flying Dutchman, and Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen. He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1951 as Amonasro in Aida, and sang over 270 performances, both baritone and bass-baritone roles. He was the first American to sing the title role of Boris Godunov at The Bolshoi_Theatre in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. During his Met career, in 1956, he appeared on Ed Sullivan's television program in an abridged version of Act II of Tosca, opposite Maria Callas, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.

Mimi Coertse Autograph on b / w Photo $54.00

  

Katia Riciarelli Autograph. Hand Signed $45.00

  

Guiseppe Taddei: Portrait Photo with Aut $65.00

  

George London Autograph. Hand signed Pho $70.00
Sena Jurinac portrait photo, hand signed. Photo by Ellinger. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 4,2 x 5,8 inches. Very fine condition. Sena (Srebrenka) Jurinac (born 1921) is an operatic soprano, now retired, born in Travnik, Bosnia. Sena Jurinac made her début as Mimì at Zagreb in 1942. In the following two years she sang the Countess, Freia and Isabella in the première of Werner Egk's Columbus. In 1944 she was engaged by the Vienna State Opera. Because of the War she was not able to sing there until 1946, when her first role was Cherubino. In the first year at the Staatsoper she sang more than 150 performances. She remained associated with the company for nearly forty years, receiving an honorary membership of the Company, giving her the title of Kammersängerin, and the Mozart Medal.  Maria Reining portrait photo, hand signed. Photo by Grainer. The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 4,2 x 5,9 inches. Very fine condition. Maria Reining (1903 – 1991) was an Austrian soprano and Kammersanger. She started to sing at the Vienna State Opera with 28 years, mainly in soubrette roles. Two years later, she moved to Darmstadt, then to the Munich State Opera, where she made her debut as Elsa in Lohengrin, under Hans Knappertsbusch. In 1937 she followed Knappertsbusch to the Vienna State Opera, where she sang Elsa again. Reining was a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble between 1931 and 1933 and again between 1937 and 1957. Between 1937 and 1941, she sang at the Salzburg Festival with great success, conducted, among others, by Arturo Toscanini. She predominantly sang roles by Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. As a guest, she appeared at the leading European opera houses: among others, she sang at the Royal Opera House in London and at La Scala in Milan.  Beloved Maria Jeritza: Portrait postcard, photo by L. Gutmann, Wien, depicting the young Jeritza in the Puccini’s opera "Das Maedchen aus dem goldenen Westen" (La fanciulla del West or The Girl from the golden West). Early Autograph from 1916. Hand-signed. CoA Maria Jeritza (1887 - 1982), was a celebrated Moravian soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1935) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921-1932 and 1951). Her sensational rise to fame and spectacular beauty and personality earned her the nickname The Moravian Thunderbolt. In 1910, she made her debut as Elsa, in Wagner's Lohengrin, at Olomouc. The Emperor Franz Josef heard her and immediately commanded that she be offered a contract at the Imperial Hofoper, Wien. She created the roles of Blanchefleur in Kienzl's opera Der Kuhreigen (1911), Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), the Empress in his Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919), and Marie/Marietta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt (1920), the latter also being the role of her debut with the Metropolitan Opera on November 19, 1921. On November 16, 1926, she starred in the title role of Puccini's Turandot in its North American premiere at the Metropolitan, where she also created the title or leading soprano roles in Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa (1924), Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's I gioielli della Madonna (1925), Korngold's Violanta (1927), Richard Strauss' Die Ägyptische Helena (1928), and Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio (1931) and Donna Juanita (1932.) Her popularity at the Metropolitan was, as in Vienna, immense, especially as Tosca, Carmen and Massenet's Thaïs. Jeritza's first husband was Austrian Baron Leopold von Popper. Her second (1935) was Hollywood mogul Winfield R. Sheehan, and later businessman Irving Seery. She died in New Jersey.  Yehudi Menuhin autograph from the 1990s. EMI promotion postcard, size: 4,1 x 5,6 inches. Very fine condition. The Right Honourable Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, ( 1916 – 1999 ) was an American-born violinist, violist, and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was probably the first child violin prodigy to come from the New World and become famous there. He was a student of Louis Persinger, George Enescu, and Adolf Busch. The name Yehudi means 'Jew' in Hebrew. Yehudi Menuhin performed for allied soldiers during World War II, and went with the composer Benjamin Britten to perform for the inmates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, after its liberation in April 1945. He went back to Germany in 1947 to perform music under the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler as an act of reconciliation, becoming the first Jewish musician to go back to Germany after the Holocaust. Careful practice and study combined with meditation and yoga helped him overcome many of his problems, and he continued to perform to an advanced age, becoming known for profound interpretations of an austere quality. In 1990 he was awarded the prestigious Glenn Gould Prize in recognition of his lifetime of contributions.

Sena Jurinac Autograph. Hand signed Phot $60.00

  

Maria Reining Autograph. Hand signed Pho $60.00

  

Maria Jeritza: Early Autograph from 1916 $110.00

  

Yehudi Menuhin Autograph: Hand-signed EM $85.00
Soprano Janis Martin photo, depicting Martin in Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, performing at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 4,1 x 5,8 inches, very fine condition.  Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras: Desirable lot of 3 photos, each one with authentic signature. The Luciano Pavarotti autograph is from 1984, Placido Domingo autograph from 1981 and the Jose Carreras signature from 1983. All 3 have been signed in Wien. 3 single photos, same size: 4 x 6 inches. They would match perfectly if matted for display. All 3 are in very fine condition and they come with a Certificate of Authenticity. The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish singers Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang in concert under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla, Rome Italy, on July 7, 1990 – the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final. Luciano Pavarotti Cavaliere di Gran Croce (1935 –2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the commercially most successful tenors of all time. He was one of "The Three Tenors" and became well-known for his televised concerts and media appearances. José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 1941), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range. Josep Maria Carreras (born 1946), better known as José Carreras, is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.  Anneliese Rothenberger b/w vintage portrait photo, hand signed by Rothenberger in 1974. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and in the original envelope from Rothenberger’s domicile in Switzerland. Size: 4,1 x 5,8, Photoy by Studio Fayer. Anneliese Rothenberger (born 19 June 1926 in Mannheim, Germany) is an operatic lyric soprano. If she favoured light and high-register lyric parts in the beginning of her career, by the mid-1960's she changed to roles with a stronger dramatic emphasis, including Konstanze (in Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail - Abduction from the Seraglio), Fiordiligi (in Cosi fan tutte), Zdenka (in Richard Strauss' Arabella) Marie (in Berg's Wozzeck) Soeur Constance (in Poulenc's Les Dialogues des Carmélites) or Violetta in (La Traviata) on stage. She also appeared in many contemporary operas by Henze, Britten, Hindemith, Carl Orff, Pfitzner, or Menotti. She was also a committed singer of Lieder. A large number of complete recordings and highlights discs bear witness to her opera work: (Die Zauberflöte , Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, Arabella, Die Fledermaus, Orfeo ed Euridice, Hänsel und Gretel, The Merry Widow, La Bohème, La Traviata, or Martha, and a much-celebrated Die Hochzeit des Figaro). Her partners on stage and on records included, among many others, Lisa della Casa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Fritz Wunderlich, Irmgard Seefried, Nicolai Gedda, Peter Schreier, Walter Berry, and Rudolf Schock.  Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Wadsworth: "A Quiet Place". Opera in 3 acts. Presentation folder with 5 photos, hand signed by the 2 composers and 4 main singers of that opera, a booklet and a printed program. These items are in the original folder and were a special present by the Vienna States Opera House. The opera was performed ( pre-performance ) on April 8th, 1986. The Folder is 9 x 12 inches, the Bernstein / Wadsworth photo is 9,45 x 7 inches the other photos 7 x 5 inches. Overall fine condition. Each autograph comes with an own Certificate of Authenticity. Scarce and desirable lot. A Quiet Place is an American opera in three acts, with music by Leonard Bernstein to a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. The work is a sequel to Bernstein's earlier short opera Trouble in Tahiti. In its initial form, A Quiet Place was in one act, and followed Trouble in Tahiti after the intermission. The first performance was on 17 June 1983 by the Houston Grand Opera. After being panned by critics Bernstein and Wadsworth withdrew the opera and revised it. The revised version was given at La Scala, Milan and at Washington Opera in 1984. The work was subsequently performed by the Vienna State Opera under the composer's baton in April 1986 with Jean Kraft as Dinah. These performances were recorded by Deutsche Grammophon for commercial release. The UK premiere was in December 1988 at the Corn Exchange Theatre, Cambridge, with the composer in attendance.

Soprano Janis Martin Autograph. Martins $25.00

  

Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras: The 3 Teno $290.00

  

Anneliese Rothenberger Autograph from 19 $38.00

  

Exciting Autograph Lot with Leonard Bern $560.00
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.  Irmgard Seefried, acclaimed soprano: Hand-signed portrait photo from 1951. It shows Seefried in Mozart’s opera "Don Giovanni". Size: 3,4 x 5,5 inches. Very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Irmgard Seefried (1919 - 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder. One of the outstanding singers to emerge immediately after the Second World War, she was noted for her Mozart and Richard Strauss roles She sang at the Salzburg Festival nearly every year between 1946 to 1964 in operas (Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in Fidelio, and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos), concerts and recitals. She appeared at the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in London from 1947 to 1949, and also La Scala in Milan, Edinburgh Festival, etc. She made her Metropolitan Opera in New York debut in November 1953 as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. She was married to famous Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan.  Ernst Krenek: Important composer’s autograph on Viennese program, signed in 1968. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 4,2 x 9,2 inches. 10 pages. Fine condition. Program for " Orpheus und Eurydike" after a work by Oskar Kokoschka. The composter of this opera and the conductor of this concert was Ernst Krenek. Ernst Krenek (1900 –1991) was an Austrian (and from 1945 an American) composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now (1939), a study of Johannes Ockeghem (1953), and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music (1974). His journalism was banned and his music was targeted in Germany by the Nazi Party beginning in 1933. On March 6, one day after elections in which the Nazis gained control of the Reichstag, Krenek's incidental music to Goethe's Triumph der Empfindsamkeit was withdrawn in Mannheim, and eventually pressure was brought to bear on the Vienna State Opera, which cancelled the commissioned premiere of Karl V. The jazz imitations of Jonny spielt auf were included in the 1938 Degenerate art exhibition in Munich. In 1938 Krenek moved to the United States of America, where he taught music at various universities, including Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1942-1947. He became an American citizen in 1945. His students included George Perle, Robert Erickson, Halim El-Dabh, Will Ogdon, Thomas Nee, and Richard Maxfield. He died in Palm Springs, California.  Soprano Ljuba Welitsch Autograph. Hand-signed Photo from the 1970s The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Size: 3,5 x 5,5 inches. Fine condition. Ljuba Welitsch (1913 - 1996) was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano. She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory and after specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936. Engagements followed in Graz, Hamburg, Munich and finally at the Vienna State Opera. Known for her red hair and exuberant vivacity, her most famous role was that of Salome, which she performed under the composer, Richard Strauss, himself in 1944 on his 80th birthday. She sang the same role for her London debut in 1947 and her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, New York on 4 February 1949. She also sang the title roles of Tosca and Aida, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in La fanciulla del West and Musetta in La bohème. A great artist, she was also capable of extraordinary over-the-top exhibitions and her exploits at the Metropolitan in New York were legendary, including a raunchy Musetta that struck fear into her colleagues, and a Tosca performance when she repeatedly kicked the supposedly dead body of the Scarpia, Lawrence Tibbett, to whom she had taken a personal dislike.

Maria Cebotari Autograph. Hand-signed Ph $90.00

  

Soprano Irmgard Seefried Autograph from $70.00

  

Composer Ernst Krenek Autograph: Hand-si $110.00

  

Ljuba Welitsch Autograph. Hand-signed Ph $65.00
Giuseppe Sinopoli: Hand signed signature on Deutsche Grammphon Discography postcard. Size: 4 x 5,8 inches. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Signed with light brown ink so it looks a kind of faint. Fine condition. Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946 –2001) was an Italian conductor and composer. Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Sinopoli began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works, becoming professor of contemporary and electronic music at the Venice Conservatoire Benedetto Marcello in 1972, and a major proponent of the new movement in Venice for contemporary music. He studied conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music under Hans Swarowsky; and in Venice, founded the Bruno Maderna Ensemble in the 1970s. His single most famous composition is perhaps his opera Lou Salomé, which received its first production in Munich in 1981 On April 20, 2001, Sinopoli died of a heart attack while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.  Christa Ludwig portrait photo ( real photo by studio Lauterwasser ) with authentic signature. Size: 4 x 5,9 inches. Very fine condition. Christa Ludwig (born 1928) is a German retired mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera and Lieder. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. Ludwig made her debut in 1946 at the age of 18 as Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus at Frankfurt, where she sang until 1952. She joined the Vienna State Opera in 1955, where she became one of its principal artists and was appointed Kammersängerin in 1962 and performed with the company for more than thirty years. In 1954, Ludwig made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and appeared there regularly until 1981. Ludwig made her American debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Dorabella in Così fan tutte in 1959. That same year, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in as Cherubino, and subsequently returned there regularly until 1990. Ludwig first appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1969 as Amneris in Aida. Ludwig's final live operatic performance was Klytemnestra in Elektra for the Vienna State Opera in 1994.  Portrait photo of the famous Austrian soprano Leonie Rysanek. 4 x 6 inches, very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Leonie Rysanke, Austrian dramatic soprano sang with the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera for more than 40 years. Rysanek performed more than 2,000 times. She is particularly famed for founding her own singing troupe. Rysanek was famous for an intense acting style that was as accomplished as her singing. She became famous after her Lady Macbeth triumph at the Met. She sang the Sieglinde in Bayreuth seven years before, in 1951. It is a highlight in opera as well as her Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten performances. Rysanek autographs are hard to find. Postcard size.  Grace Bumbry Autograph on b/w portrait photo from the famous photo studio Fayer in Wien. Size: 4 x 5,8 inches. Paper remnant at the reverse otherwise fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Grace Bumbry (born 4 January 1937), an American opera singer, was considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano for many years. She was a member of an extraordinary and pioneering generation of singers who followed Marian Anderson (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett and Reri Grist) in the world of classical music and paved the way for future African-American opera and classical singers.

Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Autograph. H $80.00

  

Christa Ludwig Autograph: Hand signed Po $45.00

  

Soprano Leonie Rysanek Autograph. COA in $64.00

  

Grace Bumbry Autograph: Early hand signe $48.00


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