Rice, Edward E. - Autograph Letter Signed 1883 Autographs Composers - Manuscripts created the role of Zerbinetta

created the role of Zerbinetta in the world première of the second version of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna in 1916

Signed half-tone photo in sepia tone

Sold with transcription

and recitals during a career which lasted for more than four decades

American mezzo-soprano (1918-2014)

Rice, Edward E. - Autograph Letter Signed 1883 Autographs Composers - Manuscripts created the role of ZerbinettaAmerican musical theater composer (1847 1924). Autograph letter with the letterhead of the Arch Street Opera House signed by him, dated in Philadelphia, October 19, 1883, about musical business. Size is 5. 75 x 8. 6 inches, 2 written pages in one sheet, repaired crack at the top, otherwise in very good condition.