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1925309392New York 1925. 1-1/2 pp. on personal letterhead. 8vo. Old folds else fine. 1-1/2 pp. on personal letterhead. 8vo. Reading in part: "Many thanks for your interest in my career. It's greatly appreciated . you are indeed very sweet." Born in San Antonio Texas operatic tenor Rafaelo Diaz 183-1943 was known as the "Lone Star Tenor of the Lone Star State." Praised for the depth and richness of his voice Diaz performed lead tenor roles with the Metropolitan Opera Company from 1917-1936. <br/><br/> unknown
1985100069<p>New York October 8 1985. 1985. Fine. - Over 30 words penned on her embossed 4-1/8 inch high by 6-1/8 inch wide personal postcard stock. The actress Kitty Carlisle thanks her good friend City Center producer Jean Dalrymple "What a good friend you are! I will follow the prescription to the letter & pray that its sic not too late!!" Signed "Kitty". The card is addressed in her hand on the verso and postmarked from New York on October 8 1985. Fine.</p><p>Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999 Kitty Carlisle Hart 1910-2007 was an American stage & screen actress opera singer and television personality. A spokesperson for the arts she served on the New York State Council for the Arts for 20 years. Kitty Carlisle played the leading lady opposite Groucho in the Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera" and regularly appeared on "To Tell the Truth".</p><p>Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Cary Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jose Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member producer and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> New York, (October 8), 1985.
11562Hood's letter: On letterhead of Osborne Isle of Wight. 8 January 1891. Mrs Gye's draft reply: without place or date. Both items good on lightly-aged paper. Rosa Hood's sister Adelaide Fanny was the wife of Herbert F. Gye and letter and reply are written informally. Hood's letter: 3pp. 12mo. She received Mrs Gye's letter that morning 'and the Queen has read it' and is 'quite pleased with your reply'. 'The Queen desired me to assure you that she had never for a moment supposed that you were responsible for the article in the newspaper - only the Queen thought it was better to have the matter mentioned to you - especially as it might be copied into other papers.' The Queen also thinks that Mrs Gye should 'have some contradiction put in the Paper'. Mrs Gye's draft reply: 2pp. 12mo. She writes that she cannot express her relief at the contents of Hood's letter. 'Since your first letter the thought that Her Majesty would be displeased about it has troubled me very much - therefore you can imagine how delighted I am to find the Queen did not imagine I was responsible.' She has 'written to Church Journal to deny the authorship of the article and ask them to publish it'. Hood's letter: On letterhead of Osborne [Isle of Wight]. 8 January 1891. Mrs Gye's draft reply: without place or date. unknown
11697New York. 27 February 1895. 1p. 4to. Fair on lightly-aged paper with unobtrusive closed tears along crease lines. 'Mr. Ben Fack Falk the photographer will I am sure give you such a photograph of me as you may select from the assortment he has if you inform him of your business.' She asks him to send her a sample if 'the tumblers prove a success as far as my likeness is concerned . If I like it I will possibly order a quantity.' New York. 27 February 1895. unknown
34689Very good. - Two bars of music penned with the lyric "We are be-trothed" on a 3 inch high by 5-5/8 inch wide sheet of buff paper. Signed in full "Frederic Solomon". Once mounted into an album the corners are torn with remnants of paper & glue adhering to the corners of the verso. <p>The American composer of comic operas & songs Frederic Solomon was the author of several compositions including "Cunnin Ain't it A Satirical! Comical! Topical!" 1887 "Beggar's Keepsake" 1893 "Temptation is hard to resist" 1893 "King Kaliko" an 1892 comic opera with libretto by Frank Dupree. unknown
1977100072March 5 1977. 1977. Fine. - One-and-a-half pages with over 85 words penned on both sides of 10-3/8 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide creamy white paper. The Opera director and producer tells Jean Dalrymple that he'd "be delighted to hear Jay Willoughby. However I'm off to San Francisco very shortly for Carmen". He asks if Willoughby could contact him when he's back. He goes on to invite Jean to the "second set of performances May 19-22 - featuring the first performance of Dominick Argento's monologue A Water Bird Talk and an incredible chamber opera written in Theresienstadt concentration camp - The Emperor of Atlantis." Signed in full "Ian Strasfogel". Folded for mailing the edges are very faintly darkened. Near fine. <p>The one-act opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung was composed by Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien while interned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. It was not allowed to be performed and the script was not finished until the 1970s. The poet Aaron Kramer prepared an English translation which the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater first performed in April 1977 and which had its New York premiere at the New Opera Theatre of the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 19 1977. The world premiere of Dominic Argento's "A Water Bird Talk" also took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that same evening.<p>The opera director and producer Ian Strasfogel born 1940 was the author of several plays screenplays and librettos and of a novel titled "Operaland". Strasfogel directed over 100 productions throughout Europe and North America and frequently collaborated with Gyorgy Ligeti Luciano Berio Bruno Maderna Hans Werner Henze and Otto Piene.<p>Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Cary Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jose Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member producer and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. March 5, 1977. unknown
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44934Architettura Teatro - Acustica - Leo Baranek - Concert and opera halls - How they sound - Woodbury Acoustical Society of America 1 ed. 1996 - VIII 643 con numerose illustrazioni. - Testo in inglese - Copertina rigida. - Condizioni molto buone. unknown
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104730Antico spartito manoscritto - Gloria in excelsis Deo / Credo - secolo XIX - Pag. 8 - Dimensioni: 31 x 45 cm ca. - Condizioni generali buone. Piccoli segni del tempo. unknown
1989277489New York N.Y. Boston Mass. : Metropolitan Opera Guild ; G.K. Hall 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Corners sharp with an overall tight bright and clean impression. Physical description; 1000 p : illustrations ; 29 cm. Subjects; Metropolitan Opera New York N.Y. New York N.Y. Metropolitan Opera. New York, N.Y. Boston, Mass. : Metropolitan Opera Guild ; G.K. Hall hardcover
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1601127846Opera Gallery 2016-01-01. paperback. Like New. 0x0x0. Brand new slender exhibition catalog illustrated in color. Invitation card laid in. Please email for photos. Opera Gallery paperback
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AQ25079vs.: vs. c. 1820s-1930s 12mo 8vo and quarto. The majority preserved within original publisher's wrappers. An extensive archive of theatrical publications and ephemera emanating from the recently dispersed library of Howth Castle County Dublin seat of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family comprised of theatre programmes and libretti representing productions spanning from the late 1820s up to the 1930s both domestic and Continental in origin. The 94 individual publications comprehend: Eight playscripts and libretti printed in Paris between including an 1828 edition of Théaulon and Choquart's comic vaudeville Monsieur Jovial ou l'huissier-chansonnier 1827 and an 1882 issue of Charles Gounod's five-act opera Faust set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite. 15 Italian productions variously printed at Rome Milan Florence and Naples in the latter half of the nineteenth century including an 1848 Neapolitan edition of Verdi's four-act opera Nabucodonosor composed to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera first performed at La Scala in Milan 9th March 1842; and a programme to accompany the first performance of Verdi's Attila at La Fenice in Venice 17th March 1846. An Italian language edition printed at Barcelona in 1845 of Jacopo Ferretti's libretto Eran due or son tre 1834. 70 theatre programmes operas and Italian-language libretti printed in London spanning the century between the 1830s and 1930s including: 15 issued in the 1870s as a part of 'Davidson's Musical Opera-Books' series published in conjunction with performances at 'London's Italian Opera Houses' of productions of inter alia Rossini's The Barber of Seville Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute each with a parallel English translation and 'the music of the principal airs'. The first appearance in print of the libretti for five Gilbert and Sullivan productions: Patience 1881 Princess Ida 1884 The Mikado 1885 The Yeomen of the Guard 1888 and Utopia 1893. A magazine-programme for a run of performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1926 of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up 1904 - a production with which Barrie was directly involved - with Dorothy Dickson in the lead role. A run of 12 programmes for the 1925/26 1926/27 seasons at the The Old Vic including 11 productions of Shakespeare's plays all notably featuring leading Shakespearean actor Baliol Holloway d. 1967. Notable members of the Gaisford-St. Lawrence family included Thomas Gaisford 1789-1855 English classical scholar sometime curator of the Bodliean Library Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Gaisford’s eldest son Thomas Gaisford of Offington Sussex 1816-1898 British Army officer married in 1859 as his second of three wives Lady Emily St Lawrence d. 1868 eldest daughter of the third Earl of Howth. Their eldest surviving son Royal Navy officer Julian Charles Gaisford-St Lawrence 1862-1932 succeeded in 1909 his uncle the fourth and last Earl of Howth and came to reside at Howth Castle in Co. Dublin. A rare opportunity to acquire an ephemeral archive which not only exemplifies the theatrical passions of a single family across least three generations but documents the evolution of nineteenth century stage production charts the popular progress of Italian-language libretti in both Britain and on the Continent and exhibits the situation of English theatre prior to the post-war dominance of television and film. . [vs.], [c. 1820s-1930s] unknown
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39380Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881. 25x 16cm one sheet folded 4 pages decorated titles in frame borders with 4 local advertisments on the margins & a full last page ad for J.L. Orme & Son on fine light weight tinted grey paper in fine condition rare. On Plays with actors listed include: "A Husband in Clover" and "Old Gooseberry". "During the evening the Band of the Governor General's Foot Guards will perform. Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881 unknown
1943045923New York: Hamish Hamilton 1943. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 504 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Black. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.50. Small Area Of Slight Browning At Gutter Edges Of Front Endpapers And Binding Slightly And Partly Cracked After Front Free Endpaper <br/> <br/> Hamish Hamilton hardcover
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