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Nice, early b/w photograph of the young Seefried along with Paul Schoeffler in Don Giovanni.
Real-Photo by Hans Dietrich, Wien. 3,4 x 5,5 inches (85 x 140 mm). Very fine condition.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Irmgard Seefried (1919 – 1988) was a distinguished German soprano who sang opera and lieder.
She sang at the Salzburg Festival every year from 1946 to 1964 (except 1955, 1961 and 1962) in operas (Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Marzelline in Fidelio, and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos), concerts and recitals.
She appeared at the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden in London from 1947 to 1949, and also La Scala in Milan, Edinburgh Festival, etc. She made her Metropolitan Opera in New York debut in November 1953 as Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and appeared there for only one season (1953-54), in five performances of the part of Susanna.
One of the outstanding singers to emerge immediately after the Second World War, she was noted for her Mozart and Richard Strauss roles.
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