English baritone (9 Ergebnisse)

Two pages, on letterhead of roughly 13.5 x 17.5 cms. He has sent a wire accepting the 'kind invitation'. '[A]s you can imagine we are rehearsing all day and every day at the present [.] The only thing thaht could stop me being with you is that we are, I understand, to record the "Fanny" music for a long-playing record on that Saturday'. He hopes this will not involve an 'evening session', as that Sunday 'will be the first break from performance of the show or rehearsals [.] it would be nice to feel that the evening at least is for jollification [.] it will be both ann honour and a pleasure to be in the company of the Gallery First Nighters' Club on that evening'. In envelope with typed address, three postage stamps, and postmark.…

Frühes Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert.

Zustand: Fine. Original flat backed colour illustrated souvenir concert programme in glossy red card wrapped covers [soft back]. 10'' x 7½''. Contains 60 pages with colour photographs and monochrome illustrations from the opera. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

RINALDO (Händeloper) Programmheft Gastspiel der Handel Opera Society London o.J., 22 SS. Pb. 8° mit Fotos und Kurzbiografien der Sänger, ordentlich erhalten - von 5 britischen Sängern/innen eigenhändig signiert.

Schöne, frühe Fotoporträtpostkarte (Old Vic Opera Company) in Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

First two letters 1p., 4to; third letter 2pp., 4to. All three signed 'John Cartier'. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. In the last letter he states that he has received the 'envelopes', and has 'distributed them round to various singers and musicians who will eventually, I am sure, be sending you a photograph with best wishes'. He apologises for being unable to invite him to visit: 'You see, this is a very tiny flat and, in fact, I am very seldom here for any length of time as my work means continual journeying from place to place for concerts and shows. For instance, I am just off to the Channel Islands for some "Yeomen of the Guard" productions, an soon go back to America for concerts. This sort of thing is really quite hard-going and leaves very little time for doing many things one would like doing. The thing I look forward to most is to stay in one place for any length of time.' He ends with condolences over the recipient's heart attack. In the first letter, written on Cartier's return from America, he states that he is enclosing photographs 'to swell your already enormous collection'. In the second he explains that he is sends two more photographs, 'taken some time ago'.…

DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD, OBE (1926-2012) englischer Bariton-Opernsänger / English baritone opera singer best known for his performances of German lieder and his international performances in opera, particularly the roles of Alberich in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Herr Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He also made recordings, including a series of recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan patter roles Großfoto (Original-Farbporträtfoto, 24,7 x 18 cm, Oil Painting by Wolf Craig-Hainish), in grüner Tinte mit eigenhändiger Widmung für Joseph Shapiro, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert 1952 - als RIGOLETTO (Verdi).…

Eigenhändiger Brief (3 S. 8 to, mit geprägter Adresse am Kopf) in Tinte mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert Hampstead, 20-2-11 - an Dear Brother Savage, wegen einer Einladung, er ist, wie sein amerikanischer Cousin immer sagt, very much under the weather.

Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. 8°) in Tinte mit Unterschrift signiert BEILAGE : kleines Repro-Porträtfoto.