Merrill, Nathaniel - Signed Photograph HM - Musicians & Bands In this autograph letter

In this autograph letter

Cebotari singing Musseta's Act II aria from La Bohème (sung in German):

very small bullet holes on the sides of the cardboard and at the bottom of the photo

First English edition of this classic ballet book by Valerien Svetlov

Austrian actress (1902-1965) whose career spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1960s

Merrill, Nathaniel - Signed Photograph HM - Musicians & Bands In this autograph letterPhotograph of a scene from a production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, signed and inscribed by the director of that production, Nat Merrill, American stage director and opera director (1927 2008), who was the resident stage director at the Metropolitan Opera from 1956 1985. He also served as the Artistic Director of Central City Opera in Central City Colorado from 1959 1966 and in 1981 founded Opera Colorado. Stamped on verso by photographer