Metropolitan Opera Inaugural Night and 2nd Night Clips 1883 ! Autographs Singers 50 or less E Tassinari and others and conductor

Tassinari and others and conductor Eugene Ormandy

shown as himself signed and inscribed on front

document lists the singers and everyone in the stage

Short note in French (untranslated) handwritten and signed by Sarasate on his business card

Pathé and Fonotipia

Metropolitan Opera Inaugural Night and 2nd Night Clips 1883 ! Autographs Singers 50 or less E Tassinari and others and conductorExceedingly rare clip from an original program for the 1st, inaugural night of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the famous October 22nd, 1883 performance of Faust with Christine Nilsson as Marguerite and Italo Campanini in the title role. These are all originals, not copies. Also included is a clip from the same program, announcing the performance on the 2nd night ever, with Lucia di Lammermoor starring Marcella Sembrich in the title role, 2 days