Three-quarter length photograph in formal attire, signed in full

by Lauritz Melchior

$35 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Depicting Melchoir with numerous medals. 125 x 87 mm.Quite worn, creased, abraided, and faded; remnants of adhesive to verso. The heroic scale of his singing, even as experienced through recordings, marked Lauritz Melchior as the foremost Heldentenor of the twentieth century. In his later years he sang little but Wagner, and concentrated on the heaviest roles, in each of which he appeared over 100 times as Tristan, over 200 . These

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