Autograph signature

by Jarmila NovotnÁ

$45 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

On an album leaf ca. 111 x 141 mm. In blue ink on blue-green paper, inscribed to Jim, and dated April 3, 1949. Together with a three-quarter length role portrait photograph of the soprano as Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ca. 257 x 207 mm.Slightly worn. Czech soprano Jarmila Novotná made her début in Prague as Mařenka in The Bartered Bride in June 1925. In 1928 she sang Gilda at the Verona

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