Martha Moedl Autograph. Portrait Photo, signed twice

Martha Moedl Autograph. b/w photo signed at front and reverse,1949.

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9,4 x 14,2 cm, very good condition. Martha Moedl (1912-2001, in Stuttgart) was a German soprano, and later a mezzo-soprano. She specialized in large dramatic roles such as Isolde, Bruennhilde, and particularly Kundry, and is considered, along with Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson, one of the three major postwar Wagner sopranos. She was among the preeminent Wagner sopranos—and most compelling singing actresses—of the twentieth century.

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Minnie Hauk Carte de Visite, European Photo

Soprano Minnie Hauk Carte de Visite, CdV, decorative reverse.
2,5 x 4 inches, (64 x 104 mm), very fine condition.

Amalia Mignon Hauck (Minnie Hauk, 1851 - 1929) was an American operatic soprano.

She was born in New York City. In 1862, Hauk began vocal studies with Achille Errani, at age fourteen she made her debut in Brooklyn and a month later, her New York City debut. In the American premiere of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (1867) she sang Juliette. Hauk sang at Covent Garden, London, in 1868 and debuted in Paris in 1869. The soprano then appeared in Italian and German opera at the Grand Opera in Vienna and other venues throughout Europe. Hauk was the first American Carmen (1878) and Manon (1885). Her voice became a mezzo-soprano of great strength and depth. Hauk's enormous repertory included approximately one hundred roles, and she sang Carmen in four languages.

In 1881 she married Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, the Austrian writer and traveller. Much of Minnie's fortune was lost during World War I. By 1918 she was impoverished and nearly blind.

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Antonietta Stella Autograph on Tinted Photo. CoA

Antonietta Stella: Portrait Photo ( Studio Fayer, Wien) hand signed.




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Size: 3,4 x 5,2 inches.

Antonietta Stella is an Italian operatic soprano, one of the finest Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, possessing a beautiful and ample voice, and particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles.

Max Lorenz Autograph: Artist signed Litho Portrait 1941

Max Lorenz Autograph: Artist signed Litho Portrait of Tenor Max Lorenz. Dedication and signature Max Lorenz 1941.

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Pinholes at the corners, slight aging.

8.5 x 11 inches.

Max Lorenz (born Max Suelzenfuss, 1901 - 1975) - German Heldentenor, famous for Wagner roles.

Lorenz became a principal tenor at Dresden in 1928, and made his first recordings in 1927. From 1933 he was at the Berlin Staatsoper, appearing also at the Metropolitan (from 1931), Bayreuth (from 1933, and again in 1952 and 1954), Covent Garden (1934 and 1937) and in many other houses in Europe and the USA. He became a member of the Vienna Staatsoper in 1937, appearing at many Salzburg.

Lorenz was for almost three decades a prominent Wagnerian tenor, celebrated as Tristan, Siegfried and Walther in particular; he was also a notable Othello, Bacchus and Herod.

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Mario del Monaco Autograph on Photo. CoA.

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Mario del Monaco Autograph on Photo. CoA.

Mario del Monaco autograph from the 1970s. Signed b/w photo ( as Othello ), 4 x 6 inches.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Very fine condition.

Mario del Monaco (1915 - 1982) was an Italian tenor and is regarded as one of the loudest tenors of the 20th Century. He graduated from the Rossini Conservatory at Pesaro, where he first met and sang with Renata Tebaldi.

His main career began with his debut on December 31, 1940, as Pinkerton at the Puccini Theater in Milan. and he retired in 1975. He was famous for his role of Verdi's Otello which he first tackled in 1950 and kept refining through his career.

He was buried in his Otello costume. He was partnered with Tebaldi in a long series of Verdi and Puccini operas recorded for Decca.

He was handsome and powerful, a natural actor with perfect idiomatic phrasing and a ringing voice, the 'Brass Bull of Milan.'"

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