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Sopranos (Singers)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Marietta Gazzaniga musical excerpts scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MP-0015-01
Summary

A scrapbook of musical excerpts kept by opera singer Marietta Gazzaniga (1824-1884), who toured the United States and Cuba in the mid-nineteenth century. The Italian soprano compiled autographs, letters, and poems from major nineteenth century Italian composers and other music personalities, notably Giuseppe Verdi, into the bound volume, which spans almost forty years.

Dates: 1845 - 1883

Nellie Lane Woodruff scrapbook of Lilli Lehmann opera ephemera

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31207057102422]
Identifier: MP-0018-01
Abstract

The scrapbook, compiled by Nellie Lane Woodruff (1867-circa 1944), contains ephemera about opera singer Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929). It appears from the contents of the scrapbook that Lehmann and Woodruff were acquaintances, if not friends. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, programs, and other ephemera documenting Lehmann's professional singing career at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Bayreuth Festival, and at other venues.

Dates: 1885-1902