Click Image to ZoomEnlarge Image
OFFENBACH - TALES OF HOFFMAN
Original Signed Met Opera Production Photo.
Signed by four cast members (see below), 1913. 3.75" h x 8.25" w. In very good condition. A little unevenly trimmed. Additional signature beneath Segurola's cropped off.A small original signed production photo from the Metropolitan Opera performance of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman on December 6, 1913.
Signed in white ink by: Andres de Segurola (who sang Spalanzani), Albert Reiss (Cochenille; Franz), Jeanne Mauborg (Nicklausse), and Karl Jörn (Hoffmann).
Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann made its Metropolitan debut in January of 1913, more than thirty years after the work's premiere in Paris. The tradition of using one singer to impersonate Hoffmann's multiple nemeses throughout the opera began at the Metropolitan in 1937 with Lawrence Tibbett.
PHO-11293$250