Rice, Edward E. - Autograph Letter Signed 1883 Autographs Composers - Manuscripts total size of 9

total size of 9

American mezzo-soprano (1918-2014)

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

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

in La Vestale (Spontini)

Rice, Edward E. - Autograph Letter Signed 1883 Autographs Composers - Manuscripts total size of 9American 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.