Metropolitan Opera - Larger Piece of the Old Met Curtain Autographs Singers 50 or less M photo is ink-stamped on verso

photo is ink-stamped on verso by the famous English photographer Leslie E

slight silvering on front and mounting traces on verso

originally a piece from a signed contract that was mounted on a cardboard

who was a leading interpreter of the Heroic soprano roles of Wagner and Strauss in the 1940s and 1950s and later became a celebrated interpreter of character mezzo parts

Near mint condition

Metropolitan Opera - Larger Piece of the Old Met Curtain Autographs Singers 50 or less M photo is ink-stamped on versoRare, larger size (10. 5 x 14 inches) piece of what was the curtain of the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York. The old, original Metropolitan Opera House was located on Broadway and 40th street, where it stood between 1883 when it was inaugurated, and its demolition in early 1967. The company moved in 1966 to its larger and more modern location at the Lincoln Center in New York, where it still is. According to our research, this curtain was used