Half-length reproduction of an original etching

by Fernand Desmoulin 1853-1914 of the noted American soprano in costume as Esclarmonde by Sybil Sanderson

$15 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

150 x 100 mm. Extrait des Albums Mariani printed to lower left corner. Massenet, impressed by her beauty and her voice with its range of three octaves, wrote the title roles in two operas for her: Esclarmonde, in which she made her Paris début at the Opéra-Comique in 1889; and Thaïs, in which she made her Opéra début in 1894. Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online.

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