ELSNER, Maria Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles large double signed photo

large double signed photo

with Rysanek as Elisabeth of Valois

25 inches (photographer´s mat size)

Polish dancer (1894-1977) and ballet master active in England and member of Ballet Russes and Pavlova Ballet Company

Singers include (in order): Beniamino Gigli

ELSNER, Maria Programs Music Signed Instrumentalists and Ensembles large double signed photoGerman mezzo soprano of Jewish origin (1905 1983), later obtained Hungarian citizenship after being forced out of Germany following the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Signed publicity photograph, shown as herself or in role, inscribed with sentiment, dated in Berlin in 1932. Size is 3. 5 x 5. 5 inches, small ink stains on verso, otherwise in excellent condition.