Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Richard Wagner Sena Jurinac

Sena Jurinac

Conductor: Max von Schilllings

Signed photo of the Peruvian soprano (1922-2004)

currently music director of the Met Opera in New York where he has been for over 40 years

Signed photo shown in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Richard Wagner Sena JurinacItalian ballerina (1853 1870), noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Coppelia (the famous ballet by Leo Delibes) when she was only 16 years old. Due to the temporary closing of the Paris Opera during the Franco Prussian war, and weakened by lack of food, she died of smallpox and fever in the day of her 17th birthday. Vintage CDV of the ballerina by photographer Reutlinger, Paris unsigned. Size is 2. 5 x 3. 75 inches, very rare!