Vanessa - Met Opera Poster with World Premiere Cast 1959 Programs Music Unsigned Conductors including Rienzi

including Rienzi

1958) whose career focuses mostly on opera

Signed photo postcard of the British baritone (1911-1988)

dated in 1912 and mounted on an acid-free mat together with his photograph

Petersburg

Vanessa - Met Opera Poster with World Premiere Cast 1959 Programs Music Unsigned Conductors including RienziVanessa, composed by Samuel Barber, was world premiered at the Met Opera in January 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Large size poster from the Metropolitan Opera announcing a performance in January 1959, with the world premiere cast (Steber, Elias, Resnik, Gedda), with Mitropoulos conducting. Total size is 39. 25 x 81 inches!, poster has 2 separate sections that need to be overlapped on top to make the total size. Poster is folded has