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Helga Dernesch portriat photo, tinted. 3,4 x 5,5 inches. Fine condition.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Helga Dernesch (b. 1939 in Vienna) is an Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano.
She made her first appearance in Bayreuth (as Elisabeth in Tannhaeuser) in 1967 and her first appearance at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1969.
Since her debut, she has appeared in most of the world's great opera houses, including Zuerich, Amsterdam, Glyndebourne, London, Paris, San Francisco, New York and Chicago in such roles as Leonore in Fidelio, Sieglinde and Bruennhilde in Die Walkuere, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, The Dyer's Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Clytemnestra in Elektra, Kabanicha in Ká?a Kabanová, The Countess in Pique Dame, Larina in Eugen Onegin.
She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1985 as Marfa in Khovanshchina and subsequently sang Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (1986), Herodias in Salome, and in Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Die Frau ohne Schatten (all in 1989). She returned to Met until 1995 for performances of Dialogues des Carmélites, Arabella and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. She also sang Herodias for the Los Angeles Opera in 1998.
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