Engraving

by W. Roffe after F. Roffe of the bust by J. Durham by Jenny Lind

$275 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

264 x 140 mm. Slightly worn, browned, and creased. Dubbed The Swedish Nightingale, Lind debuted in 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz. She made her Viennese début at the Theater an der Wien in April 1846 as Norma. She then toured extensively in Germany, taking part, with Mendelssohn, in the Lower Rhine Festival at Aachen during May and June, when she sang in Haydn’s Creation and Handel’s Alexander’s Feast. She

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