Francisca, Fannie - Set of 2 Signed Cabinet Photographs Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles Liszt is thanking Chelard´s son

Liszt is thanking Chelard´s son for a portrait of his father and speaking highly of him

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

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French bass (1874-1951) who enjoyed a long association with New York's Metropolitan Opera

English soprano (1884-1936)

Francisca, Fannie - Set of 2 Signed Cabinet Photographs Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles Liszt is thanking Chelard´s sonLyric soprano who toured widely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries throughout Europe including Paris. Berlin, Munich, Bremen, Dresden, Monte Carlo. Vienna and Amsterdam, as well as the United States. Set of 2 signed cabinet photograph, shown both as herself and in role (possibly Desdemona in Verdi's Otello), each photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Size of each is 4. 25 x 6. 5 inches, both in excellent condition. Not sold separately.