Bust-length portrait engraving of the noted Swedish soprano

by Christine Nilsson

$40 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

230 x 160 mm. Within oval border. Artist anonymous. Browned from former matting; remnants of hinges to upper corners of verso. Nilsson was one of the greatest international opera stars of the 1860s and 1870s. In 1883 for the opening season of the Metropolitan Opera House, she sang Marguerite in the inaugural performance of Faust 22 October and the title role in the first local performance of Ponchielli's La Gioconda 20 December ... Her

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