Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Frau ohne Schatten CDVs Cabinets Instrumentalists Playbill advertising the performance of

Playbill advertising the performance of François-Adrien Boieldieu's opera "Johann von Paris" on March 13

Belgian tenor (1915-2003)

period 1951-1952

in or around 1932

Blind stamped by photographer Mishkin

Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Frau ohne Schatten CDVs Cabinets Instrumentalists Playbill advertising the performance ofAmerican soprano of Swedish Hungarian descent (1918 2006), who was a leading interpreter of the Heroic soprano roles of Wagner and Strauss in the 1940s and 1950s and later became a celebrated interpreter of character mezzo parts. Signed photograph, shown as The Nurse in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, with Ingrid Bjoner as the Empress. Stamped on verso by Sabine Toepffer photo studio, Munich. Size is 7 x 9. 25 inches, very slight creases on