American Operatic Soprano (20 results)

Condition: 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.…

s/w-Fotoporträtpostkarte (Foto Anne Kirchbach, Starnberg), eigenhändig signiert.

Original-Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert Rs. Außerdem : Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift (für Euro 25,- außerdem Eigenhändiger Brief mit Datum, Unterschrift 1 S. 4°).

Frühes s/w-Originalporträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert.

Frühes Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert.

Albumblatt (1 S. kl. 8° quer), in Tinte eigenhändig signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtbild.

E.Albumblatt (1 S. quer kl. 8°) in Tinte mit eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Ort, Jahr, Unterschrift signiert Berlin 1910 BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.

Großes Porträtfoto (8°) eigenhändig signiert.

Visitenkarte in Tinte eigenhändig signiert mit Datum Sept. 20 th 1875 BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.

Großfoto (frühes Original-Porträtfoto, 25,3 x 20 cm, Ph. De Bellis Studios N.Y., leichte Gebrauchsspuren : Nadelecken), mit eigenhändiger Widmung, langer Empfehlung, Unterschrift in roter Tinte signiert.

Kleine Autogrammkarte (Visitformat blanko), in Tinte eigenhändig signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtbild.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Assez bon. Photo (laser print) signed in the 2000s. Size : 10.5x15 cm. Condition : irregular cut, pixelated photo, please see scans. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Rare - Nice authentic photo signed in person. Size : 18x13 cm. Condition : please see scans. Provenance : Georges Flour (1945-2013) collection. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Kleine Visitkarte, in Tinte eigenhändig signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.

Großfoto (frühes Original-Porträtfoto, 25,3 x 20 cm, Ph. James Kriegsman N.Y.), mit eigenhändiger Widmung, langer Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.

Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. 8°) in Tinte mit Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto.

Condition: Very good. - Nine bars of music penned on a six-sided piece of cream paper with the text written in English below the music. Inscribed "in kind remembrance of Pauline l'Allemand / Philadelphia 19th Nov 86." There is a diagonal crease & a light paper-clip mark near the left side of the paper. Its left edge is darkened. There are 3 light glue marks & surface rubbing to the verso where the paper has been removed from an album. Very good. Pauline l'Allemand gave the first American performance of Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on November 17, 1886. This quotation from the opera, which was sung in English, was thus penned two days after the opening.Born in Syracuse, NY, Pauline l'Allemand [1856-1944) made her debut as an operatic soprano in Stratton's "The Fairy Grotto" at Wieting Opera House in her home town. She subsequently studied singing in Dresden, Stuttgart and Paris. After successfully touring in Europe, she returned to America, performing "Lakme" in Philadelphia. After her attempt to create her own opera company failed, she retired to a farm in Black River Falls, Wisconsin with her grown son. They lived in extreme poverty and both were eventually pronounced insane and in 1920 were remanded to the Mendota State Hospital for the insane in Madison, Wisconsin. L'Allemand was memorialized in the cult classic "Wisconsin Death Trip" by Charles Van Schaick and Michael Lesy.Rare.…

Konzertprogramm (4 S. 8 to, mit ihrem Porträt auf dem Cover), unter ihrem Bild eigenhändig signiert Editorium Auditorium Concert series, mit William Hughes at the piano, Sat. evening April 13 th, 1946.

8vo. 26 pp. Double sheets. Some on hotel stationery, some on private stationery. The collection of long and important letters are mainly addressed to the journalist and impresario Fano and Mr. Smith, relating theater performances in Italy, France and Spain. We report two extracts as example: I. [] I have been in Milan in the hands of Giordano and Leoncavallo I am studying and intend to sing Fedora and the Bohème of Leoncavallo and I have been studying the parts with the composers Fedora will be another Traviata for me []". II. [] A lei farà piacere di sapere che dopo questo mese non ho più per rappresentante il signor [Maurício] Shakosch per le ragione che ora lui a[sic.] una figlia nell'arte e sono convinta che non si può servire due padrone quando una di queste padrone è la propria figlia []" Considered one of the finest coloratura sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, her most famous roles were Amina in La sonnambula, and the title roles in Lakmé, Mignon, Mireille, and Lucia di Lammermoor.…

E.Albumblatt ( 1 S. 4° Goldschnitt, Ränder leicht gebräunt) mit E.ZITAT in Tinte (6 Zeilen aus TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, Dritter Aufzug) mit Ort, Jahr, Unterschrift signiert 1896 Leipzig "Mild und Leise / wie er lächelt / wie das Auge / hold er öffnet / seht ihr s Freunde / jäht ihr s nicht ? .".