Photograph of the noted soprano in Lortzing's comic opera Der Wildschütz with autograph signature

by Frieda Hempel

$65 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

204 x 142 mm. Laid down to mounting sheet. A German-born American soprano, Hempel's Metropolitan début in 1912, as Marguerite de Valois in a brilliantly cast Les Huguenots, began a period of seven years with that company, during which she settled in New York where she became a naturalized American. She sang Eva and Euryanthe there under Toscanini, besides many of the lighter Verdi, Rossini and Donizetti parts, in which she was

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