Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure Autographs Actresses - Letter T some silvering over image

some silvering over image

a highly influential artist in music during the last part of the 19th and early 20th century

Size is 8 x 9

American mezzo-soprano (1930-2020) and American soprano (b

1897 (according to postal marks on verso)

Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure Autographs Actresses - Letter T some silvering over imageAmerican soprano of Swedish Hungarian descent (1918 2006), who was a leading interpreter of the Heroic soprano roles of Wagner and Strauss in the 1940s and 1950s and later became a celebrated interpreter of character mezzo parts. Signed photograph, shown as Brunnhilde in Wagner's Die Walkure, inscribed to photographer Mark Hagmann, whose blind stamp is below. Size is 8 x 10 inches, in very good condition.