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Lisa della Casa: Early, hand-signed Electrola Discography card. Signed with red ink.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
3,5 x 5,5 inches (9 x 14 cm), fine condition.
Lisa Della Casa (born 1919) is a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in major operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, of German lieder, and for her great beauty.
She was dubbed “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”. A colleague, lyric soprano, the late Anneliese Rothenberger, said: "She was like Liz Taylor!".
Della Casa made her British debut singing the part of Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival. She then went on to sing the title role in Arabella (her signature role) for the first time in her life - at the Bavarian State Opera House in Munich in 1951. She sang Eva with pleasure in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayreuth Festival in 1952, but she was never to sing the Bayreuth Festival again, preferring the summer Salzburg Festival- just to name a few highlights in her career.
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