Melba, Nellie - Patti, Adelina - Nordica, Lillian & Others - Signed Album Page Bayreuth Photos Mini-poster/playbill for a performance of

Mini-poster/playbill for a performance of Macbeth (Verdi)

in questa nevicata triste Odessa – ma come l’onde del mare si seguono così sull’altra con vertiginosa velocità – così la mia vita artistica (…) Ora con febbrile ansia studio la Fede (Fidès)

Stamped on verso by photographer Gabriel Schelzel

Size of most pages is 5

Set of 2 typed letters signed on the official letterhead of the Metropolitan Opera

Melba, Nellie - Patti, Adelina - Nordica, Lillian & Others - Signed Album Page Bayreuth Photos Mini-poster/playbill for a performance ofAustralian soprano (1861 1931), Italian soprano (1843 1919), American soprano (1857 1914). A fine album page with the signatures of very important opera singers of the late XIX century including Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti (who added a text quote "A beautiful voice is a gift of God"), Lillian Nordica, Jean & Edouard De Reszke, Pol Plancon, Emma Calv, plus former Met Opera manager and impresario Maurice Grau. Size is 5. 5 x 8. 4 inches, overall rust