Metropolitan Opera Inaugural Night and 2nd Night Clips 1883 ! Autographs Singers 50 or less E lot includes opera and orchestral

lot includes opera and orchestral

Signed portrait postcard (Iris Vienna)

Tassinari and others and conductor Eugene Ormandy

during a performance of Otello

shown as himself signed and inscribed on front

Metropolitan Opera Inaugural Night and 2nd Night Clips 1883 ! Autographs Singers 50 or less E lot includes opera and orchestralExceedingly rare clip from an original program for the 1st, inaugural night of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the famous October 22nd, 1883 performance of Faust with Christine Nilsson as Marguerite and Italo Campanini in the title role. These are all originals, not copies. Also included is a clip from the same program, announcing the performance on the 2nd night ever, with Lucia di Lammermoor starring Marcella Sembrich in the title role, 2 days