Vanessa - Met Opera Poster with World Premiere Cast 1959 Programs Music Unsigned Conductors American contralto (1897-1962)

American contralto (1897-1962)

Signed photo postcard of the German tenor (1890-1958)

season 1959-60 in Haifa

including Rienzi

Vanessa - Met Opera Poster with World Premiere Cast 1959 Programs Music Unsigned Conductors American contralto (1897-1962)Vanessa, 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