Waist-length carte-de-visite photograph of the noted Swedish soprano as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust

by Christine Nilsson

$65 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Ca. 105 x 63 mm. With photographer's facsimile signature Mora and printed address 707 Broadway to lower margin of mount.Slightly worn, soiled, and stained; minor annotations in pencil to verso. Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson was one of the greatest international opera stars of the 1860s and 1870s. In 1883 for the opening season of the Metropolitan Opera House, she sang Marguerite in the inaugural performance of Faust 22 October

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