Schubertiade :: [Opera & Composer] Jeritza, Maria. (1887–1982) & Ormandy, Eugene. (1899–1985) & Chaliapin, Feodor. (1873–1938) & Villa-Lobos, Hector. (1887–1959) & Sutherland, Joan. (1926–2010) & Steber, Eleanor. (1914–1990) & Pavarotti, Luciano. (1935–2007) & Nilsson, Birgit. (1918–2005) & Price, Leontyne. (b. 1927) & Hoffman, Dustin. (b. 1937)

[Opera & Composer] Jeritza, Maria. (1887–1982) & Ormandy, Eugene. (1899–1985) & Chaliapin, Feodor. (1873–1938) & Villa-Lobos, Hector. (1887–1959) & Sutherland, Joan. (1926–2010) & Steber, Eleanor. (1914–1990) & Pavarotti, Luciano. (1935–2007) & Nilsson, Birgit. (1918–2005) & Price, Leontyne. (b. 1927) & Hoffman, Dustin. (b. 1937)

Opera & Composer Autograph Album, 1930's–2000's

An impressive autograph album containing signatures from over 120 opera singers, conductors, actors, composers, instrumentalists and other personalities, dating from the early 1930's to 2009. The first section of the album contains signatures from the 1930's to 1940's collected in the U.S. and Europe. The second and larger section of the album contains autographs collected in the 1970's to 2000's from musicians performing at the San Diego Opera; a veritable who's-who of late-twentieth-century opera stars with some other celebrities, the collection includes Joan Sutherland, Eleanor Steber, Luciano Pavarotti, Victoria de los Angeles, Gian Carlo Menotti, Birgit Nilsson, Montserrat Caballé, Leontyne Price, Kathleen Battle, Claudio Arrau, Dustin Hoffmann, and many others. Many of the signatures are inscribed to the collector, Bob Salmon, a former singer and supporter of the San Diego Opera; many of the singers have added short autograph musical quotations in memory of the roles they performed in San Diego. Handsome full leather binding with gold tooling and raised bands to the spine; some light scratches and edge wear; overall in fine condition. 8.75 x 12.5 inches (22 x 32 cm).

Signatures in the first group include: dancer and choreographer Edith Walcher, soprano Maria Jeritza, baritone Josef von Manowarda, tenor Kalaman Pataky, composer Anton Fleischer (with an autograph musical quotation from Faust), mathematician Louis L. Silverman, Austrian soprano Maria Gerhart, Hungarian alto Enid Szantho, American conductor Werner Janssen, actor Emil Jannings, actress Lil Dagover, conductor Eugene Ormandy, composer Jeno (Eugen) Zador, bass Fedoro Chaliapin, philosopher John Elof Boodin, philosopher William Ernest Hocking, composer Hector Villa-Lobos, newspaper publisher Harry Chandler, and several others.

Signatures in the second group include: politician Harold E. Stassen, alto Lili Chookasian, baritone Martial Singher and his wife Eda Busch Singher, Australian conductor and pianist Richard Bonygne, soprano Joan Sutherland, mezzo-soprano Huguette Tourangeau, soprano Eleanor Steber, soprano Judith Raskin, tenor Nicolai Gedda (inscribed over two pages in both English and Russian), soprano Beverly Sills, tenor John Alexander, actor Cliff Robertson, bass Robert Hale, jazz guitarist Nick Lucas, tenor Luciano Pavarotti, actor and comedian Jonathan Winters (with a comic drawing of a chicken laying an egg!), actress Jane Withers, actor David Groh, actor Andy Griffith, soprano Inga Nielsen, baritone Robert Merrill, baritone Sherrill Milnes, tenor José Carreras, "Love Boat" actor Gavin MacLeod and his wife Patti, soprano Victoria de los Angeles, tenor Sergio Franchi, actress Margaret O'Brien, actor George Fenneman, singer and actor Dennis Day, actor Dustin Hoffman, a large spread of actors' signatures including Rosemary Clooney, Betty White, David Doyle, Dennis Morgan, and several others, soprano Renata Scotto, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, soprano Cristina Deutekom, tenor Carlo Bergonzi, soprano Birgit Nilsson, tenor Alfredo Kraus, soprano Montserrat Caballé, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, jazz musicians Woody Herman, Herb Ellis and Barney Kessell, soprano Leontyne Price, soprano Grace Bumbry, bass Justino Diaz, soprano Dorothy Kirsten, conductor Eve Queler, soprano Katia Ricciarelli, tenor Stuart Burrows, tenor Sergei Larin, tenor Richard Cassilly, mezzo-soprano Maureen Forrester, conductor Michelangelo Veltri, baritone Silvano Carolli, soprano Ghena Dimitrova, conductor Andre Previn, soprano Kathleen Battle, baritone John Del Carlo, tenor Richard Leach, soprano Diana Soviero, bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, pianist Claudio Arrau, soprano Carol Neblett, Fernando de la Mora and another singer from the US premiere of the opera Rappaccini's Daughter (with an autograph musical quotation), members of clarinetist Woody Herman's band, tenor Ramón Vargas, conductor Richard Bonynge (with an autograph musical quotation from La Sonnambula), soprano Deborah Riedel, tenor Jerry Hadley (with an autograph musical quotation from Les Contes d'Hoffmann), director Martile Rowland (with an autograph musical quotation from Lucia di Lammermoor), violinist Sarah Chang, tenor Laudo Bartolini, soprano Michèle Crider (with an autograph musical quotation from Aida), mezzo-soprano Stefania Kaluza, tenor Richard Margison (with an autograph musical quotation of "Nessun dorma"), soprano Jane Eaglen (with an autograph musical quotation from Turandot), Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti, soprano Marina Mescheriakova and tenor Sergei Larin (both with autograph musical quotations from Otello), baritone Russell Braun, tenor Michael Schade, tenor Allan Glassman, tenor José Cura, soprano Elisabeth Futral, mezzo-soprano Marianna Pentchova, tenor Carlo Ventre, tenor Piotr Beczala, soprano Indra Thomas, and bass-baritone Eduardo Chama. (15579)

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