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COLLECTION OF SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS & POSTCARDS OF OPERA SINGERS 1) Three framed photos 2) A photo album with about twelve signed portrait photographs. 3) A photo album of approximately 70 photos of portraits, signed photographs, stamped by the photographer on the back. 15 x 10,5 cm 4) 37 autographed photographs and postcards, 1960s-1970s

Lotto 650
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1) Three framed photos i Luigi Alva / Anna Moffo autographs. Photo in Falstaff Portrait showing the two singers in costume, autographed "Cordially Luigi Alva" "Anna Moffo" lower right, photographer "Fayer- Wien" lower left. Luigi Alva (Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo) (1927), Peruvian operatic tenor. Anna Moffo (1932-2006), American soprano of Italian origin. 26,5 x 19,5 cm ii Lisa della Casa / Inge Borkh, in the opera Elektra by Richard Strauss. Lisa della (Chrysothemis) Inge Borkh (Elektra). Salzburg Festival 1957. Portrait of the two singers in costume, autographed signatures "Lisa della Casa" "Inge Borkh. Lisa Della Casa (1919-2012), Swiss soprano. Inge Borkh (1921-2018), German soprano. 26,5 x 19,5 cm iii Mirella Freni in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Portrait of the soprano in costume as Susanna, autograph signature "Mirella Freni". Photo by Louis Mélancon, Metropolitan Opera, New York. Mirella Freni, stage name of Mirella Fregni (1935-2020), Italian soprano. 26,5 x 19,5 cm 2) A photo album with about twelve signed portrait photographs. including the eminent heldentenor Hans Hopf (1916-1993), "Dimitri" (Boris Godunov), James King (1925-2005) "Lohengrin" (Richard Wagner), the English tenor Charles James Craig (1919-1997) ..... 15,5 x 11 cm 3) A photo album of approximately 70 photos of portraits, signed photographs, stamped by the photographer on the back. 15 x 10,5 cm Marina Krilovici (B. 1942), Romanian-born opera soprano, Vera Little (Vera Pearl Little-Augustithis, 1928-2012) American contralto and mezzo-soprano, Annabelle Bernard (1935-2005) operatic soprano born in New Orleans, Pilar Lorengar (Lorenza Pilar García Seta, 1928-1996) Spanish soprano and mezzo-soprano, Ileana Sinnone (B. 1944) Italian soprano in "Otello" (Verdi) ... 4) 37 autographed photographs and postcards, 1960s-1970s Including 2 signed by Maria Callas (1923-1977), Gustave Botiaux (B.1926), Mady Mesplé (1931-2020), Giorgio Merighi (1939-2020), Isabel Strauss (1928-1973), Michel Dens (1911-2000) and more. Different sizes.


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