Metropolitan Opera - Larger Piece of the Old Met Curtain Autographs Singers 50 or less M slight silvering on front and

slight silvering on front and mounting traces on verso

American jazz singer (1917-1996)

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

One of the best we have seen

Metropolitan Opera - Larger Piece of the Old Met Curtain Autographs Singers 50 or less M slight silvering on front andRare, larger size (10. 5 x 14 inches) piece of what was the curtain of the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The old, original Metropolitan Opera House was located on Broadway and 40th street, where it stood between 1883 when it was inaugurated, and its demolition in early 1967. The company moved in 1966 to its larger and more modern location at the Lincoln Center in New York, where it still is. According to our research, this curtain was used