Bust-length photograph in formal attire as Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog. Signed in full and inscribed in blue: To C. K. Strate from Lauritz Melchior

by Lauritz Melchior

$50 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

140 x 90 mm. 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 figures suggest the stamina and endurance that enabled him to sound fresh in the last acts of Tristan and

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