Ballet Opera, Signed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In blue cloth. No jacket. A couple small stain to boards. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 318pp. Signed and dedicated by John Tooley to the title page. A frank account of the inner workings of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, written by the man who was its General Director from 1980?88. The years under Tooley are generally viewed as a golden era; and a stark contrast to the unhappy times for management and staff which ensued. Condition: This good, solid readable copy, but with quite heavy age-toning to the pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. Frontispiece And Dust Jacket By Arthur Szyk (illustrator). 1st Edition. 505 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Red And Gilt. First Edition Stated. Inscribed By Saroyan To Agent/Publicist/Columnist Robert "Bob" Wachsman, With Whom Saroyan Worked At Mgm, And Dated April 1942. Book With Slight Browning, Otherwise Near Fine. Dj Lightly Used, Spine Browning And Beginning To Brown Along Other Edges, 1/2" Tear Down Top Of Rear Spine Edge With 1/2" X 3/16" V-Chip, 1/8" Tear At Bottom Of Spine, 1/2" Tear At Top Rear Flap Fold, Not Price-Clipped.[Included Is A Loose Heritage Bookshop Receipt For This Book, Dated February 25, 1970]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original-Fotoporträtpostkarte (Titelpartie in DER DÄMON, Bregenzer Festspiele 1997) eigenhändig signiert.

Unbound. Condition: Fine. (CAD) No markings, Fine One large sheet of paper folded in three to make 6 panels front and back, B&W photo of Miroshnichenko to front panel, photo of Dmytro Hnatiuk, baritone to the back panel ; 5 smaller photos of the artist in their roles. This was part of the Canada-USSR Cultural Exchange Concert Tour. The performance in Vancouver was at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on November 10 1974. The text is in English, French, and Russian. As well, there is a small prograame 23 x 15 cm, one sheet folded in half to make 4 pages with B&W portrait of the artist on the front panel. The frotn panel is INSCRIBED by both ARTISTS in Russian and dated Novemeber 10, '74. A list of the arias are given in this samller programme. (1.0 JM ITF2 docket 43 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed By Author. Programme.

17 x 27, 304 pp., 228 figures, 1 chromolithographie, lettrines, reliure d'édition pleine toile, 3 tranches dorées, bon état. Reliure signée : A. Giraldon et P. Souze.

Condition: Very Good ++. Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, 18.5 x 25 cm red cloth boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine. 96pp including 55 pages of black and white illustrations. In original unclipped dust jacket priced at 21s net. The book is signed by Michael Ayrton, who was the designer of the scenery and costume, on the front free endpaper. Laid in is an invitation to an exhibition of Ayrton's recent painting and his designs for the show The boards have just a touch of dust marking to the top and bottom edges. Internally, the book is generally clean noting only an ink mark on the title page for The Plates (possibly a production fault). There are also a couple of pages towards the rear of the book where the printing from the verso of the page shows through somewhat. The artist's signature on the front free endpaper is clear and bright. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown), has rubbing to the corners, spine tips and edges with a number of tiny tears and minor chips and creasing along the top edge and one small tear along the bottom edge. The laid in invitation to Ayrton's exhibition is an added bonus. An excellent signed 1st edition copy recording the first major production of Saddler's Wells and English National Opera following the war. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Albumblatt (1 S 8°, Ränder leicht beschnitten) eigenhändig signiert von 5 Mitgliedern der OPERA PARIS BALLET CLASSICAL Tournee 1946, dabei : MARIANNE IVANOFF, ROGER FENONJOIS ( French dancer and ballet master), DANIEL SEILLIER, LOLITA PARENT, SERGIO PERETTI (1905- ?).

Condition: Very Good. Original 1940s autograph book of Fred Bason. Dimensions 170mm x 190mm. Original leather binding in dark brown with gilt fore edges, gilt dentelles and marbled brown endpapers. Remnants of being previously covered in brown paper. Pages in pastel colours; many pages unused. Autographs clearly written in ink. Signatures include: Madeleine Bell, George Bannard, Tom Clarkson, Tom Haliburton, John Kriza (ballet) Richmal Crompton, Jan Naughton, NY Ballet Co. Jacques d'Amboise Robert Barnett and Hugh Laing, Wilfred Pickles, Alicia Alonso, Peggy Letty, Lorna Dearne, William Mottram (Obsessed 1951) Igor Youskevitch, Jackie Bell, Joe Loss (+ Photo) loosely inserted photograph signed R.A.Oliver/Fred Bason (1907-1973) Was An English Bookseller, Writer And Broadcaster Most Famously Known For His Collection Of Diaries That Were Published In Four Volumes In The Early 1950s. Near very good. Slight wear & slight marking of covers. Splits to spine and edges nicked. Sound. Clean pages. Signedes.

Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Le Point N°LI de mars 1956. In-4 broché de 48 pages au format 26 x 19,5 cm. Jaquette grise avec titre imprimé. Infimes frottis aux coins et en haut du 1er plat. Petites brunissures au 4ème plat. Intérieur frais. Frontispice et superbes photographies en noir, par Robert Doisneau, tirées en héliogravure. On trouve aussi de nombreuses photographies d'époque. Textes de Noël Boyer, Jacques Murgier, Antoine Goléa et Pierre Michaut. Très bel état général. Edition originale. Précieux exemplaire enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de l'éditeur de la revue, Pierre Betz, adressée à Robert Doisneau.

1 lettre autographe signée 3 In-8 [1928] bon Lazare Saminsky regrette de n'avoir pu rencontrer Straram lors de son court passage à Paris. «J'ai été bien heureux d'entendre de vous que votre réponse à ma lettre d'hiver passé est positive, c'est à dire que vous voulez diriger ma 3ème symphonie. C'est pourquoi je m'ai permis d'écrire à Universal Edition de vous envoyer la partition pour votre revue (à propos, elle dure 20 minutes, mais elle exige des bonnes répétitions comme vous verrez)». Il viendra à Paris pour assister aux répétitions. «Cela vous intéressera d'apprendre que j'ai juste fini un opéra-ballet dans deux tableaux "La Fille de Jehptée" [The Daughter of Jephthah, 1928] et j'aurai bien des choses agréables à faire ici et en Europe cette saison ci [.]». Compositeur, chef d'orchestre et musicographe américain d'origine russe, élève de Rimsky-Korsakov.

Paris : Théo Brugière, 1927. Un volume (25,6x21,6 cm) broché sous couverture rempliée imprimée et illustrée par une reproduction d'un dessin de Jodelet, 12 pages de texte par Louis Laloy en français et en anglais. Album de 52 planches photographiques en hors texte reproduites en héliogravure par Fred Boissonnas : danseuses et danseurs du Corps de L'Opéra de Paris. Edition originale tirée à 100 exemplaires numérotés sur papier vieux japon à la forme (n°82) et signé par l'éditeur. Belle qualité d'impression photographique. Rare brochure professionnelle. Livres.

2 Albumblätter (je 8°, 1951) eigenhändig signiert von 15 Mitgliedern der AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE COMPANY, dabei : LUCIA CHASE (1897-1986, American dancer, actress, ballet director and also the co-founder of the American Ballet Theatre ), PAULA LLOYD, MICHAEL LLAND (1925- 89), ERIC BRAUN (1924-70), JOHN KRIZA, FERNAND NAULT, DIMITRI ROMANOFF, MEREDITH BAYLIS (1929-2002, am. Tänzerin und Schauspielerin), JAN HOLLAR; BARBARA LLOYD (auch Schauspielerin), ANGELA VELEZ, CHARLYNE BAKER, RUTH ANN KOESUN, LUCINDA MACY, LILLIAN LANESE (1924-2009).

Moscow: N.p., 1892. Plate XII from a set of twenty loose black and white prints originally sold as a set in a portfolio, printed in Moscow in 1892. This untitled set of large, high quality photographic prints (each measures 25" X 18") commemorates some unidentified imperial autograph collection, with each print picturing a montage of autographs in specific collecting fields. Subject matters represented include many of the classic areas of autograph collecting: scientists (several different), artists, musicians, actors, opera performers, ballet stars, writers and poets, statesmen and more. While the signed photographs (usually cartes-de-visite), letters and other documents depicted in each montage are international in scope, there tend to be more Russian (go figure!) and French persons. "Ballet et Opera" is a quaint heavy stock print consists of a montage showing nine cartes-de-visite or cabinet size photographs, six of them signed, one with a signed card and two alongside Autograph Notes Signed, of Virginia Zucchi, Sigrid Arnoldson, Libia Drog, Deycha-Sionitzky, Leopoldine Loscher, Marie Petipa, Luigia Cerale, Eugenie Mravine and Lydie Heiten. Most are head and shoulders portraits in opulent Victorian garb and headgear; full-length shots in tutus were not mandatory, and are present only on Loscher and Cerale. These images are casually splayed out atop what might be an artist's rendering of a ballet stage scene, with putti, a lyre, draped florals, etc. Very good. Minor soiling. Most attractive and with large, untrimmed margins.These pre-revolutionary prints from the heyday of the czars -- all in handsome, clean condition -- are seldom encountered in this country, and come direct from our contact. All signatures depicted on these images are, remember, photographic reproductions of their signatures -- not authentic original signatures.

BEL ENSEMBLE DE DOCUMENTS RELATIFS AUX FÊTES DONNÉES À SAINT-CLOUD EN LHONNEUR DE LA PRÉSENTATION À LA COUR DE MARIE-LOUISE DAUTRICHE, SECONDE ÉPOUSE DE LEMPEREUR NAPOLÉON.Le 31 mars 1810, Marie-Louise dAutriche était présentée à la Cour au Palais de St Cloud.- 2 P.S. : listes établissant le montant des prestations attribuées à chaque danseur avec, Nom des Artistes qui ont exécuté devant L.L.M.M.I et R. [Leurs Majestés Impériales et Royales] le Divertissement donné à St Cloud (.) le 31 Mars 1810.- Une pièce émanant de la .Maison de lEmpereur, Service du Grand Chambellan- Théâtre impérial Divertissement le 31 a St Cloud., qui établit la liste des dépenses concernant les .Partitions, Parties de Ballet, Orchestre signée Lefebvre- P.A. : reçu : .fourni deux voitures (.) aux artistes de la danse de lopéra pour le service de Sa Majesté lEmpereur et Roy, à St Cloud a raison de vingt quatre francs par voiture.Unie solennellement par procuration à lEmpereur des Français les 9 et 11 mars 1810, Marie-Louise dAutriche quitte Vienne deux jours plus tard pour rejoindre son époux. La rencontre est prévue le 27 mars à Soissons. Mais dans la matinée, impatient de connaître sa nouvelle épouse, Napoléon monte dans une calèche et va au-devant de Marie-Louise. Dès que la voiture de la nou-velle impératrice sarrête pour relayer, lEmpereur bondit à lintérieur. Ils feront route ensemble jusquà Soissons puis jusquà Compiègne.Pierre-Gabriel Gardel entre à 16 ans à lécole de lAcadémie royale de musique (Opéra de Paris) en tant que danseur "noble" où il est lélève de son frère aîné Maximilien Gardel. Nommé premier danseur en 1780, il est contraint de renoncer à sa carrière de danseur, suite à des problèmes dorsaux. Au décès de son frère en 1787, il est nommé maître de ballet à lOpéra de Paris, poste quil occupera pendant 40 ans.

Oblong folio (236 x 322 mm.). 2 pp. 206 measures of music notated on 20 hand-ruled staves in dark brown ink on both sides of a single leaf. Mostly on 3-stave braces, but also on 2- and 4-stave braces. With numerous corrections, deletions, and corrections; 2 entire measures canceled. Browned, but on good quality laid paper and in very good condition overall. Attached at corners to thin window mat, at the foot of which is an inscription in an unknown 19th century hand in German identifying the manuscript as follows (in translation): "Original manuscript by Carl Maria von Weber. The present piece is the first draft of the chorus and ballet from the third act of Oberon. Thanks to its bouncy, exquisite melody, it became a favorite of the German people even before the opera's first performance, based solely on the piano-vocal score. The draft has English text because Weber composed Oberon, which was destined for London, with English text to get as close as possible to the spirit of the nation. This prompted him to a most serious study of the language in his final years. August 1847 [Signed with Initials] [? Etw] . Berlin." For an account of various manuscript sources of Oberon, see Jähns 306, p. 391. Oberon, to a libretto by James Robinson Planché after Christoph Martin Wieland's eponymous poem, was first performed in London at Covent Garden on 12 April 1826. "The première . was a great success, with lavish settings and spectacular scenic effects that impressed even Weber, and the opera remained popular throughout the season. . It contains some of Weber's most delightful music, which has assured the work a permanent, if peripheral, place in the repertory. . The brilliant overture opens atmospherically with Oberon's horn-call, which acts as a motif throughout the work. With the overwhelming success of his opera Der Freischütz in 1821 [Weber] became the leading exponent of German opera in the 1820s and an international celebrity. A seminal figure of the 19th century, he influenced composers as diverse as Marschner, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Liszt." Paul Corneilson, Clive Brown, et al. in Grove Music Online. Signed.