Half-length role portrait photograph in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo, signed in full
by STEVENS, Risë 1913-2013
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Syosset, New York, United States
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About This Item
From the studio of Bender in New York. Ca. 252 x 202 mm. Risë Stevens was an "American mezzo-soprano of Norwegian origin. She sang with the New York Opera-Comique before becoming a pupil of Anna Schoen-René. Approached by the Metropolitan, she declined and sailed for Europe to study with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. She then made her formal operatic début in Prague in 1936 as Thomas' Mignon; she also sang with the Vienna Staatsoper and in Buenos Aires. Returning to the USA, she made her début with the Metropolitan on tour in Philadelphia in 1938 as Octavian, appearing a month later in New York as Mignon. She remained with the company until 1961 but also sang with other companies (including Glyndebourne in 1939 and, as Cherubino, 1955). Her warm, lyric voice can be heard on studio and off-the-air recordings of her Cherubino, Carmen, Mignon, Delilah and Octavian." Max de Schauensee and Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online.
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- Seller
- J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23947
- Title
- Half-length role portrait photograph in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo, signed in full
- Author
- STEVENS, Risë 1913-2013
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Keywords
- musical autographs; singers' autographs; opera autographs; signed photographs; signed photographs of opera singers; role portrait photographs signed; 20th-century opera; 20th-century singers; 20th-century American singers; 20th-century mezzo-sopranos
- Product_type
- Autograph
Terms of Sale
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
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About the Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Syosset, New York
About J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
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