Bust-length portrait photograph, signed in full and inscribed to Clarence E. Krause

by Gladys Swarthout

$120 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

Signed by the photographer, Herbert Mitchell, in white ink at lower left. Ca. 251 x 202 mm.Slightly worn and soiled. American contralto Gladys Swarthout studied singing in Chicago, making her operatic début there in 1924 as the Shepherd-boy in Tosca; the following year she sang Carmen at Ravinia. Her début role at the Metropolitan was La Cieca La Gioconda, 1929 ; she performed there regularly until 1945, as Siébel,

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