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Autographs: opera singers J - L

 

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Hilda Jacobsen - mezzo-soprano with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1900-01, singing Hebe, Iolanthe, Edith, Lady Angela, Pitti-Sing, Tessa, and Phoebe Meryll. Later sang in musical comedy, most notably The Toreador, The Orchid and The Catch of the Season - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed Rotary postcard, signed: "Faithfully yrs, Hilda Jacobsen". £12 

     

  

 

   

  

  
Gundula Janowitz - born 1937, German soprano (Donna Anna, Arabella, Seiglinde) with a supremely beautiful voice; a singers' singer - 4 x 5.75 inches (10 x 14.5 cm) autographed photo. £30   [ref: GJ1]    

  

 

 

 

  
Gundula Janowitz - born 1937, German soprano (Donna Anna, Arabella, Seiglinde) with a supremely beautiful voice; a singers' singer - 6 x 4 inches (15 x 10.5 cm) autographed photo. £28   [ref: GJ2]  

  

 

 

  

     

  
Isabel Jay - 1879-1927, British soprano, a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company singing Yum-Yum, Elsie, Aline and Casilda, then had big career in musical comedy (A Country Girl, The Cingalee, Miss Hook of Holland, The Balkan Princess) - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard. £16   [ref: IJ1]       

  

 

 

 

  
Isabel Jay - 1879-1927, British soprano, a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company singing Yum-Yum, Elsie, Aline and Casilda, then had a big career in musical comedy (A Country Girl, The Cingalee, Miss Hook of Holland, The Balkan Princess) - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard showing her as Miss Hook of Holland, postally-used in 1907, signed: "With pleasure! Isabel Jay". £16   [ref: IJ2] 

  

  

  

 

  
Alfred Jerger - 1889-1976, Austrian bass-baritone; a versatile singer with a huge repertoire which included roles such as Leporello, Sachs, Beckmesser, Scarpia, King Philip, Ochs, Barak, Mandryka and Pizarro, performing at Salzburg, ROH Covent Garden, Dresden and Vienna - 3.25 x 5.25 inches (8.5 x 13.5 cm) autographed photo. Nice young photo and autograph. £40 

  

  

  

 

  
Maria Jeritza - 1887-1982, Moravian soprano, a fine actress and one of the greatest singers of the 1920s and 30s; created the role of The Empress (Frau ohne Schatten) and the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, was the first Vienna Minnie, and the first USA Turandot - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard, signed in blue fountain-pen, postally-used (with German stamp) in 1920. Excellent scarcer early autograph. £90 

 

  

 

 

  
Siegfried Jerusalem - born 1940, German tenor - autograph on 6 x 3.5 inches (15 x 9 cm) white page from autograph book, signed 1986 at ROH Covent Garden after a performance of The Flying Dutchman. £10        

 

  

 

 

  
Patricia Johnson - born 1934, British mezzo-soprano - autograph on 6 x 3.5 inches (15 x 9 cm) white page from autograph book, signed after singing Marcellina in La Nozze di Figaro at ROH Covent Garden in 1986. £6     

  

      

   

  

       

    

Sena Jurinac - 1921-2011; Croation-Austrian soprano, who also sang mezzo-soprano roles: a major operatic star of the 1940s and 50s, she performed at all of the world's great opera houses, with a wide repertoire including Mimi, both The Countess and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Octavian, Sophie and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier: many regard her as the finest Octavian of all - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, dated "April 1965" on reverse. £35

  

   

            

   

     

  

  

  
Robert Kerns - 1933-1989, American baritone, a fine actor as well as singer, most famous as Puccini's Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) which he sang in the world's major opera houses including The Met. He was a fine Billy Budd at ROH Covent Garden, and later a notable Germont, Posa, both Ford and Falstaff, Marcello, Scarpia and Onegin - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo dedicated: "Fur Brigitte". Nice young autograph. Condition: slight wear to top right corner. £40 

 

 

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James King - 1925-2005; American tenor who sang at the Metropolitan Opera, ROH Covent Garden, Vienna, La Scala Milan and Bayreuth; an intense artist with great vocal stamina, specialising in helden and spinto tenor roles such as Florestan, Bacchus, Otello, Siegmund and Walther - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo showing him as Lohengrin [?]. signed: "Hertz liebe, James King" in firm blue ink, rather clearer than shown on scan. £25        

   

 

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Louise Kirkby-Lunn - 1873-1930, British mezzo-soprano, famed for her big voice and fine technique, a famous Fricka, Delilah and Amneris - autograph on 4.5 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm) page signed: "Sincerely yours, Louise Kirkby-Lunn"; and a 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) unsigned postcard. They are not attached to each other. The pair: £25 

  

  

     

 

  

 

 

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Margarete Klose - 1902-1968, German mezzo-soprano; sang at Berlin State Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera, ROH Covent Garden, La Scala Milan and regularly at Bayreuth where her Brangane (Tristan und Isolde) was considered definative. Her opera repertoire was large (Wagner, Verdi and Srauss) as well as German lieder, and she was reputed to be Furtwangler's favourite mezzo-soprano - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo, signed: "Margarete Klose, 'Brangane'". £75          

  

  

  

  
Rene Kollo - born 1937, German lyric tenor, whose fine technique allows him to sing heavy roles (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin) as well as operetta - 4.25 x 6 inches (10.5 x 15 cm) autographed record company card. £20     

  

 

 

 

  

Selma Kurz - 1874-1933, Austrian soprano; a major artist of her day, she performed a large variety of roles including Tosca and Sieglinde, but became famous as the greatest coloratura soprano of her day as Oscar, Gilda, and Zerbinetta, particularly at ROH Covent Garden and in Vienna - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard. £120         

     

 

 

 

  

  
Giorgio Lamberti - Italian tenor - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo showing him as Cavaradossi in Tosca at Deutsche Oper Berlin, with dedication: in deeply indented blue biro "a Ector, Giorgio Lamberti". £15      

  

  

 

 

  
Winifred Lawson - 1892-1961, British soprano; sang title role in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida for D'Oyly Carte Opera Company;  later joined Sadlers Wells Opera - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed Parkslee postcard showing her as Elsie in The Yeomen of the Guard, signed: "Best wishes, Winifred Lawson". £28   [ref: WL1] 

  		      

 

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Winifred Lawson - 1892-1961, British soprano; sang title role in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida for D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; later joined Sadlers Wells Opera - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard showing her as Princess Ida, signed: "Yours sincerely, Winifred Lawson". £28   [ref: WL2]
 

 

 

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Sergei Leiferkus - born 1946, Russian baritone - 4.25 x 6 inches (11 x 15 cm) autographed postcard, showing him in a scene from Rachmaninov's The Miserly Knight, Glyndebourne 2004. £12 

   
   

  


 

 

    
Bertha Lewis - 1887-1931, British contralto, perhaps the greatest D'Oyly Carte contralto of all, playing all the major Gilbert and Sullivan contralto roles, plus major operatic roles including Carmen and Delilah for other companies - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard showing her as the Duchess of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, signed: "Yrs sincerely, Bertha Lewis". £25   [ref: BL2] 

     

 

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Henry Lytton - 1865-1936, British actor/singer, principal baritone with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, most noted for playing patter roles (KoKo, Jack Point, Major-General Stanley, Sir Joseph Porter) - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard showing him in uniform, signed: "Yours faithfully, Henry A Lytton". £20   [ref: HL1]      

  		      

 

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Henry Lytton - 1865-1936, British actor/singer, principal baritone with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, most noted for playing Gilbert and Sullivan patter-roles (KoKo, Jack Point, Major-General Stanley, Sir Joseph Porter) - 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20.5 cm) autographed photo showing him as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, signed: "Yr. sincerely Henry A. Lytton". Condition: rather grubby and with heavy sellotape marks on three edges as shown on scan, but with unbeatable autograph. £22   [ref: HL2]  

  

  

  

  
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