Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure [LITERATURE] with a typed sentiment

with a typed sentiment

conductor and composer (1858-1929)

car j’ai ouï-dire que votre livre est un chef-d’oeuvre…”

and some creases

Debussy and Bach

Varnay, Astrid - Signed Photograph in Die Walkure [LITERATURE] with a typed sentimentAmerican 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.