Half-length role portrait photograph in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo, signed in full

by Risë Stevens

$45 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

From the studio of Bender in New York. Ca. 252 x 202 mm. Risë Stevens was an American mezzo-soprano of Norwegian origin. She sang with the New York Opera-Comique before becoming a pupil of Anna Schoen-René. Approached by the Metropolitan, she declined and sailed for Europe to study with Marie Gutheil-Schoder. She then made her formal operatic début in Prague in 1936 as Thomas’ Mignon; she also sang with the Vienna Staatsoper and

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