Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles English soprano (1880-1955)

English soprano (1880-1955)

Opera was premiered eleven months earlier in Florence

dated in Munch in 1899

ALSO INCLUDED is a colorized print of him in Les Huguenots

which was just founded and will have its building created

Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles English soprano (1880-1955)American baritone and composer (1897 1943), the first African American artist to succeed in Broadway, getting regularly hired, sang in the original production of Jules Kern's Showboat in 1927. Signed photograph, shown as himself, inscribed and dated in 1931. Stamped on verso by photographer Charles A. Braun, Chicago. Size is 8 x 10 inches, several small creases on edges, otherwise in very good condition.