Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure Autographs Theater Signed picture (close up playing

Signed picture (close up playing piano) 21 x 15 cm on program cover

inscribed and dated in 1918

Karl Christian Kohn

Russian soprano (1902-1974)

an original photo by Mishkin

Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure Autographs Theater Signed picture (close up playingAmerican soprano of Swedish Hungarian descent (1918 2006), who was a leading interpreter of the Heroic soprano roles of Wagner and Strauss in the 1940s and 1950s and later became a celebrated interpreter of character mezzo parts. Signed photograph, shown as Brunnhilde in Wagner's Die Walkure, inscribed to photographer Mark Hagmann, whose blind stamp is below. Size is 8 x 10 inches, in very good condition.