Opera Singers (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Drawings of Cowboy; opera & other Singers Cover art (illustrator). 1st Edition?. FAIR Condition, some aging text, some edge tears PAPERBACK. Old song pasted to inner back cover. ; BLACK OR WHITE TITELS ON LIGHT GREEN PAPER COVER. 2" WIDE SWATH TO BACK COVER MISSING ADVERTISMENT (CLEAR TAPE REMOVAL SCAR) ; Sheet Music; 192pg pages; Includes GO DOWN MOSES; DEEP RIVER; GOLDEN SLIPPERS; EAST BOUND TRAIN; HAIL COLUMBIA; IN The GLOAMING; BEAUTIFUL DREAMER others.

Underlined signature on 9 x 1.5 cm piece of wove paper, apparently cut from letter. In good condition. Reads 'Joan Sutherland.' Reverse blank. See image.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seven 78 rpm Batwing one-sided records from Victor of Enrico Caruso: La donna e mobile from Rigeletto, Amelita Galli-Curci La Capinera, Sophie Braslau Birds in the Night, John McCormack Roses of Picardy and Indiana Moon, Miss Louise Homer and Mme Homer Last Night, the Flonzaley Quartet Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes and Rosa Ponselle Maria, Mari and Carme (2-sided). All excellent condition. Special packing of an old 10-sleeve record album included in the price. 1908-24.

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.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1907 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 38 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Signed book: `Sopranos of Today` (by Harold Rosenthal), published by John Calder, London, 1956, hardcover book with dust jacket, 6,5 x 9,5 inch, 103 pages, signed on internal pages by Maria Callas, Victoria de Los Angeles, Inge Borkh, Gre` Browenstijn, Joan Cross, Lisa della Casa, Adele Leigh, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried, Astrid Varnay, Amy Shuard and others, with heavy losses to dust jacket and scattered mild signs of wear - in nearly fine condition.

Eigenhändiges Albumblatt (1 S. quer 8°), in Tinte von dem Ehepaar mit beiden Unterschriften signiert Rückseitig ebenso untereinander 2 eigenhändige Einträge m.U. der Sängerinnen ETHEL HERBERT und FLORENCE WYSART (Sprechtheater). BEILAGE : Repro-Fotoporträt.

Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. 4° mit gedrucktem persönlichen Briefkopf) in Tinte mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert 22.III.1937, empfiehlt eine Sängerin BEILAGE : Repro-Porträtfoto der Sängerin.

Eight signed vintage photographs of opera singers Jean Madeira, Otto Wiener, Jaro Prohaska, Herta Töpper, Oskar Czerwenka and Josef Greindl (all about 3,75 x 5,75 inch) & Hermann Uhde and Alexander Kipnis, (both 8 x 10 inch), mostly signed in blue ink, with mounting remnants verso, with small tears (Uhde & Kipnis), and scattered mild signs of wear - overall in fine condition.

Thirteen signed vintage photographs of opera singers Ernst Haefliger, George London, Kurt Marschner, Thomas Stewart, Friedrich Lenz, Toni Blankenheim, Donald Grobe, Nicola Zaccaria, Alfred Poell, Otto von Rohr, Carlos Alexander, Sandor Konya, and Set Svanholm, (12x) about 3,75 x 5,75 inch & 5 x 7 inch (partly affixed on cardboard), mostly signed in blue ink, with mounting remnants verso, and scattered mild signs of wear - overall in fine condition. Accompanied by a visiting card signed by Set Svanholm & an autograph letter signed by Jennifer Vyvyan, both affixed on cardboard.

Press photograph archive of African American women opera singers, 1957-1977, documents the emergence and international recognition of Black performers within mid twentieth century classical music and operatic institutions. The images center on four prominent singers whose careers developed during and after the era of segregation, when access to major stages and audiences expanded unevenly for Black artists. Figures such as Marian Anderson, who broke barriers at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, established a precedent for subsequent generations; the performers represented here advanced that presence through sustained international careers, providing visual evidence of African American participation in elite cultural institutions during a period of social and cultural change. Six black and white silver gelatin press photographs, each approximately 8 x 10 inches, with captions and markings on recto and verso. Subjects include Adele Addison in two studio portraits from the 1950s, later known as the singing voice for Bess in Porgy and Bess (1959); Shirley Verrett in two images, including an early news photograph prior to a performance at Ambassador College Auditorium and a later 1976 stage portrait in formal concert dress; Martina Arroyo in a 1977 portrait during the height of her international career; and Grace Bumbry depicted in costume as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965. The photographs capture both staged publicity portraits and performance contexts, documenting professional presentation and artistic identity. Produced during decades of expanding civil rights advocacy and gradual institutional integration, the archive situates African American women within a field historically shaped by exclusion and limited access. Their visibility in major opera houses and concert venues reflects broader shifts in cultural recognition and professional opportunity, while also underscoring the continued significance of performance as a site of racial and gendered representation. Minor edge wear; captions remain legible; overall very good condition.

Signed vintage autograph album, about 10 x 10 inch, with over 140 signatures (mostly photographs - in different sizes) - mainly from the Opera Festivals in Bayreuth: including signatures of Birgit Nilsson, Richard Tucker, Adriana Lazzarini, Liane Synek, Elena Suliotis, Stefania Malagu, Jean Cox, Josef Greindl, Berit Lindholm, Gian Franco Cechele, Angelo Mercuriali, Silvio Maionica, Michael Langdon, some with mild signs of wear - overall in fine condition.

Signed vintage photographs of Richard Strauss & opera singers, with about 50 signatures - including signatures of Richard Strauss, Set Svanholm, Georg Monthy (8), Alfred Poell (3), Todor Mazaroff, Paul Schöffler, William Wernigk, Hans Hotter, Franz Völker, Herbert Alsen, Karl Kamann, Josef von Manowarda, Hermann Wiedemann, Karl Friedrich, Lea Piltti, Helena Braun (2), Hilde Konetzni (2), Dora Komarek (2), Esther Rethy, Elena Nikolaidi, Else Böttcher, mostly about 3,5 x 5,5 inch, mostly signed in blue ink, some of them with mild signs of wear - overall in fine to very fine condition.