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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, inscribed "Faithfully yrs, Hilda Jacobsen". £10 

  

  

  

  
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]  

 

 

 

  
Gundula Janowitz - born 1937, German soprano (Donna Anna, Arabella, Seiglinde) with a supremely beautiful voice; a singers' singer - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed postcard. £28   [ref: GJ3]    

  

 

 

  
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 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: IJ2]      

 

 

 

  
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 photo (early Vienna photo, scarce).   SOLD  

 

 

 

  
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     

  

  

   

  
James Johnston - 1903-1991, Northern Irish tenor, sang tenor leads at Sadlers Wells and Covent Garden in 1940s and 50s; most famous as Calaf, Manrico and Pinkerton - 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) autographed photo, inscribed "Best wishes, James Johnston". Condition: slight silvering of dark background, and fragments of paper on reverse where item has been stuck into album. £32   

  

 

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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, and 3.5 x 5.5 inches (9 x 14 cm) unsigned postcard. They are not attached to each other. The pair: £22 

    

 

  

    

    
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. £15      

 

 

 

  
    
Giorgio Lamberti - Italian tenor - 4 x 6 inches (10 x 15 cm) autographed photo showing him as Cavaradossi in Tosca at Deutsche Oper Berlin, inscribed 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, inscribed "Best wishes, Winifred Lawson". £28  

  		      

 

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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, inscribed "Yours sincerely, Winifred Lawson". £28 

 

 

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Lotte Lehmann - 1888-1976, German soprano, a major singer of the 1930s and 40s at ROH Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera New York, a great Richard Strauss singer some regard her as the greatest Arabella and Marschallin of all - 3.25 x 5.25 inches (8.5 x 13.5 cm) autographed photo, with dedication in German, dated 1937.   SOLD   

  

  

  

  
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, inscribed "Yours sincerely, Bertha Lewis". £25   [ref: BL1] 

   

 

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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, inscribed "Yrs sincerely, Bertha Lewis". £25   [ref: BL2] 

     

 

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Felicity Lott - born 1947, British soprano, star of opera and recital, particularly associated with Strauss (Four Last Songs, Rosenkavalier, Cappricio) - 5.5 x 3.5 inches (14 x 9 cm) autographed photo showing her in Intermezzo at Glyndebourne in 1983. £22         

     

   

    

      

      

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, inscribed "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, inscribed "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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