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27931New York City: Metropolitan Opera Co. INSCRIBED by Ms Stevens. Faint dimple in lower left corner. Very Good. 9-7/8" x 8" <br/><br/>"One of the great voices of the Metropolitan Opera New York-born mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens made her debut with the company in 1939 as Octavian in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier". Her other notable roles in 21 years with the company included the two characterizations most associated with her the title role in Bizet's "Carmen" and Dalila in Saint-Saens's "Samson et Dalila." Furthermore Ms Stevens is known for literally saving the entire 1961 season. After the company had canceled its entire 1961-62 schedule due to stalled labor negotiations a persuasive telegram from Rise Stevens convinced President Kennedy to intervene and he ordered the Secretary of Labor to arbitrate the dispute. Just three weeks later the entire season was reinstated on schedule demonstrating notables such as President Kennedy were not immune to the entreaties of the Met's attractive reigning mezzo-soprano. A great beauty as well as a great singer she also enjoyed one of the more successful careers of the many opera singers who made films most notably in "The Chocolate Soldier" opposite Nelson Eddy and "Going My Way" with Bing Crosby & Barry Fitzgerald. She was also something of a fixture on early TV appearing frequently on such programs as "The Bell Telephone Hour" & "The Voice of Firestone" where she sang both operatic arias & popular songs. She also appeared on one of the first telecasts from the Met in 1954 singing her favored role of Carmen opposite one of her most frequent Don Joses Richard Tucker." IMDb. Metropolitan Opera Co unknown books
1983313841983. Image size 556 x 352 mm overall size 630 x 430 mm. On glossy dark red stock. <br/><br/>From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne b. 1934.<br/><br/>Edges slightly worn; verso of mount foxed. "Horne had a voice of extraordinary range rich and tangy in timbre with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top. In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist singing lieder mélodies Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
19729020545Minneapolis: University of MInnesota 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publishers original cltoh over boards spine stamped in black. With three plays by Yale M. Udoff Allen Joseph William N. Monson. <br/><br/> University of MInnesota hardcover books
19729020546Minneapolis: University of MInnesota 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publishers original cltoh over boards spine stamped in black. With four plays by David Korr Gladden Schrock Don Keith Opper Joel Schwartz. Spine of dust jacket is sunned else fine. Advance comp copy with publisher's promotional materials laid in. <br/><br/> University of MInnesota hardcover books
1930144431930. Image 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches matted and framed to 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches overall. 1 vols. Fine condition. Image 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches matted and framed to 14 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches overall. 1 vols. Inscribed Photograph of Kirsten Flagstad. An attractive image showing the great Wagnerian soprano in street clothes seated. unknown books
503462<p>8" x 10". Half-length pose by John E. Reed Hollywood signed and inscribed to Joseph Huntley. Very good.</p><p>Signed and inscribed to African-American usher and autograph collector Joseph Huntley.</p><p>Bliss 1917-2014 soprano; in various operettas on Broadway. One film credit.</p> unknown books
27798Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in colour. 32 pp. <br/><br/>Includes an essay on the company the stage the music and the actors by A.C. Scott together with synopses of operas in the repertoire. With photographic illustrations in colour and black-and-white throughout. <br/><br/>Slightly worn. unknown books
1966168101966. Very good. Poster measuring 14" x 18.25" approx. mounted on stiff card likely contemporaneous with original printing likely for lobby or similar display. Possibly trimmed at lower edge; we've seen versions with venue info below. Printed offset in black and blue. Vertical creases from folding. Corners bumped. Very minor toning. Toning and tape at verso. <br/><br/>Poster advertising the Harkness Ballet a company founded by Standard Oil heiress Rebekah Harkness in 1964. From early in the company's history with George Skibine as artistic director. The Harness Ballet performed primarily in Europe before opening its own theater in New York with a company including Alvin Ailey and other avant-garde choreographers. A scarce piece of ephemera from this important troupe. unknown books
30832Executed in ink pencil gouache and silver paint on wove paper. Unsigned but with monogrammatic handstamp to lower left corner. With annotations in ink in Russian relative to various parts of the costume. 13.125" x 8.75" 332 x 222 mm.<br/><br/>Slightly worn and soiled; some edge tears and repairs; upper right corner with erasure resulting in minor paper loss. Korovine designed costumes for productions of Russian operas including Borodin's Prince Igor Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko and Le Coq d'Or.<br/><br/>"Konstantine Korovine is one of the most famous of Russia's twentieth-century stage designers. He made his debut as a theatrical painter in 1885 when he executed the sets and costumes for the production of Snegurochka at Savva Mamontov's Private Opera after Vasnetsov's designs and thereafter he emerged rapidly as an independent stage designer - decorating according to one souce 80 operas 37 ballets and 17 dramas during his lifetime. Korovine brought to the Russian stage a vibrancy and richness that was lacking in the traditional Imperial theaters. He felt more at ease when called upon to design operas and ballets treating of Russian history and legend such as Prince Igor Sadko and The Golden Cockerel and he designed sets and costumes for such spectacles at home and abroad." Bowlt: Russian Stage Design Scenic Innovation 1900-1930 from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky pp. 175-176. MacDougall Arts Ltd. London auction June 9 2011 lot 413 catalogue p. 17. unknown books
29868Image size ca. 212 x 142 mm. sheet size 321 x 190 mm. <br/><br/>The design depicts a man dressed in an exotic Egyptian costume deocrated with numerous armlets anklets necklace earrings headdress etc. Executed in watercolour and gold paint on heavy wove paper. <br/><br/>Slightly worn; browning to outer edges from old mat; remnants of mounting paper to verso. unknown books
199323688Urbana: University of Illinois Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0252019741 . First printing. As new in like dust jacket. . University of Illinois Press hardcover books
199533894Vichy 1995. Brown and gold wrap around photographic image on paper wrappers with white title lettering to front wrapper. A Nr Fine book. 112 pp. Several photographic images. 12" x 9" <br/><br/> unknown books
193815899NY: Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc 1938. 4to pp. 68. VG cover little worn at edges slightly worn dj. List of Met artists 1938-39 glued on pastedown. Owner's signature on flyleaf. OP. Photographs and details about pre-1938 performances and artists. Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc unknown books
14432LONDON GRAMOPHONE 1921. REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION VERY GOOD. LONDON, GRAMOPHONE, 1921 unknown books
188756496N.p. Providence 1887. Folio broadside approx. 12" x 4¾" text in a single column beneath the running head light toning very good. Listing the cast of characters for this Irish comedy in four acts a summary of which is appended as well as a list of the Providence Opera House Orchestra and an announcement of two matinees Atkinson's Aphrodite and Peck's Bad Boy. <br/><br/> unknown books
606055not signed on a 3/4 length shot of Boris Karloff having a conversation with Warner Oland in a scene from the 1936 film "Charlie Chan at the Opera." Photograph is on single weight stock; 10" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
186432020Pest: Rozsavölgyi & Comp. PN N.G. 1051-1075 1864. Folio. Publisher's original wrappers. 1f. decorative lithographed title by Langen 3-146 pp. Engraved. Each work with separate caption title and pagination. <br/><br/>25 overtures for solo piano:<br/>Auber: Fra Diavolo<br/>Auber: Der Maskenball. Báléj<br/>Auber: Die Stumme von Portici. Portici néma<br/>Beethoven: Coriolan<br/>Beethoven: Egmont<br/>Beethoven: Fidelio<br/>Beethoven: Leonore 1805<br/>Beethoven: Leonore 1806<br/>Beethoven: Prometheus<br/>Bellini: Norma<br/>Bellini: Der Pirat. Piráták<br/>Bellini: Die Puritaner. Puritánusok<br/>Bellini: Romeo et Julia<br/>Bellini: Die Nachtwandlerin. Alva járó<br/>Bellini: La Straniera<br/>Boildieu: Johann von Paris. Párisi János<br/>Boildieu: Die weisse Dame. Fehér Nő<br/>Cherubini: Lodoiska<br/>Cherubini: Der Wasserträger. A vizhordó<br/>Donizetti: Belisar<br/>Donizetti: Der Liebestrank. Bájital<br/>Donizetti: Lucia von Lammermoor<br/>Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia<br/>Gluck: Alceste<br/>Gluck: Armida<br/><br/>Wrappers worn and frayed; tape repairs to corners; spine reinforced with paper tape; previous owner's handstamp and ink titling to upper. Light foxing and offsetting throughout. Mona 1925. Rozsavölgyi & Comp. [PN N.G. 1051-1075] unknown books
2009130310New York: Aperture 2009. First edition. Hardcovers. Three volumes. Curtis Mann with an essay by Rod Slemmons John Opera with an essay by Karen Irvine and Stacia Yeapnis with an essay by Natasha Egan. Each book with numerous illustrations. All books in fine condition and in a fine cardstock slipcase. No dust jackets as issued. Aperture unknown books
1950285American Ballet Theatre <i>Metropolitan Opera House October 8 to November 5 S. Hurok Presents Fall Victory Season of Russian Ballet by the Ballet Theatre with Massine Gollner Kaye Laing Chase Hightower Petroff Karnilova Romanoff J. Reed Tudor Kriza Alonso Orloff Robbins Lang R. Reed. Guest Artists: Anton Dolin Riabouchinska Youskevitch Lichine Eglevsky Argentinita Pilar Lopez & Co. and by Special Arrangement Tamara Toumanova. Antal Dorati Musical Director Mois Zlatin Associate Director. </i>A snake-broadside 79 cm x 7 cm announcing the repertory for performances at the Metropolitan Opera from October 8 to November 5 1950. While there is no year published on this broadside George Balanchine's <i>Waltz Academy </i>had its world and New York premieres on October 5 and 11 1944 respectively and <i>Pas de Deux </i>had its premiere on April 9 1946 featuring Alicia Alonzo and Andre Eglevsky. Sunday fell on October 8 and 22 only in 1950 and 1944. This surviving snake-broadside is folded and in pristine condition. Blue ink on cream paper. A rare surviving ephemeral document listing the repertory and legendary dancers of Ballet Theatre in the years immediately following World War II. S. Hurok books
193326486NY: Metropolitan Opera Association 1933. Program Saturday afternoon January 7 1933. The Emperor Jones after Eugene O'Neill's play. By Louis Gruenberg. Lawrence Tibbett as Brutus Jones. Scenic production designed by Jo Mielziner. Also Pagliacci. Conducter Tullio Serafin. VG. Metropolitan Opera Association unknown books
1927D12058Milan 1927. Ephemera. Very Good. Broadside advertisements for the performance of "Piccolo Harem" at Teatro Manzoni 4 large printed in color; 7 handwritten letters by Costa 5 of them signed with content related to the drama; 78-pp. typescript of the play in French "Petit Harem" signed by Costa; and 7 contemporary newspapers containing reviews. Condition is VG or better. The broadsides are particularly striking -- some flattened creases from folding but boldly designed and colors remain bright would display nicely. <br/><br/> unknown books
196088091<p><b>CULTURAL REVOLUTION MODEL OPERA</b></p><p>Manuscript Ledger Master Inventory: General Record of Stage Props for a traveling Chinese theatrical repertory company introducing Revolutionary Opera into its program including costs for creating silk stage props sets costumes and scenery with various paper slip receipts some loose dated from 1963 to 1969. Oblong album measuring 7-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches contents with 20 numbered leaves of double-sided ruled ledger; bound in brown cloth-backed plain light blue paper board with lettered pink paper label decorative pattern endpapers originally with ribbon-tied spine now lost contents loose.</p><p>Includes entries for the revolutionary opera <i>Taking Tiger Mountain</i> 1968 with one entry bearing signature of Wang Xiu Wen dated 12 September 1967. Includes a pink silk armband laid into the album inscribed "Mei Ying Shan" which could be translated as Huaying Mountain. </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watchv=cjE0LDNycE8</p><p>There is also reference to a 1961 novel which the Bejing Film Studio made into a movie called <i>Lie Huo Zhong Yong Sheng</i> Living Forever in Burning Flame its IMDB title translated as <i>Red Crag</i> based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan. It was set in Chongqing during the Chinese Civil War 1949 and featured underground communist agents under the command of Zhou Enlai fighting an espionage battle against the Kuomintang. The story takes place in Huaying Mountain.</p> hardcover books
188356458Providence 1883. Folio broadside approx. 13" x 5¾" text in a single column beneath the running head; light toning very good. Listing the cast of characters for this Irish drama in three acts made for the benefit of the Brownson Lyceum as well as a synopsis of each of the three acts and seat prices. The Irish poet Oscar Wilde had lectured at Low's the preceding September. <br/><br/> unknown books
1881RBALLER00ECLibrairie Germer Bailliere Et Cie 1881. Very Good. Ballet Gilbert. Le Rein Senile : Contribution a L'Etude de la Nephrite Interstitielle Chez les Vieillards Extrait de la Revue de Medecine. Paris: Librairie Germer Bailliere Et Cie 1881. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good. Contemporary ink notation at top of front wrap and tiny blind stamp on bottom edge. A small number stamp on first page. Back wrap lacking and with glue residue and stitching holes at spine from previous binding in a larger volume. Contents very good. Text in French. . Librairie Germer Bailliere Et Cie unknown books
14051Original Albumen photographic print of 19th century Paris. In the foreground several carriages are crossing paths in front of the Paris Opera. Circa 1880s. by X.phot. as credited in the title bar. A superb image capturing a period of time in 19th century Paris. 8" x 11". A sharp clean image. In excellent condition. unknown books
