Merrill, Nathaniel - Signed Photograph CDVs Composers shown as Tosca at Covent

shown as Tosca at Covent Garden

soprano Eleanor Steber

Swedish tenor (1911-1960) considered one of the leading operatic singers of the 20th century whose career developed mostly at the Metropolitan Opera and less frequently at the major European opera houses

active between 1954-1966

Signed photo of the German soprano (1919-1988) shown as herself

Merrill, Nathaniel - Signed Photograph CDVs Composers shown as Tosca at CoventPhotograph of a scene from a production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, signed and inscribed by the director of that production, Nat Merrill, American stage director and opera director (1927 2008), who was the resident stage director at the Metropolitan Opera from 1956 1985. He also served as the Artistic Director of Central City Opera in Central City Colorado from 1959 1966 and in 1981 founded Opera Colorado. Stamped on verso by photographer