Title: Autograph: A Sheet from an Autograph Album Inscribed & Signed by the French Soprano Marie Roze Mapleson.
Description: Cincinnati, 1879. 1879. - A 4-5/8 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide sheet of creamy white paper removed from an autograph album inscribed & signed "Yours Most Sincerely / Marie Roze-Mapleson / Cincinnati 1879". The left edge of the sheet is rough and there is dampstaining along the top and right side of the page, not affecting the inscription or signature. Good.
The French Operatic Soprano Marie Roze (Mapleson) (1846-1926) studied under Mocker and Auber at the Paris Conservatoire. She made her debut at the Opera-Comique in 1865 at the age of 16. She toured Britain and Scotland with the Carl Rosa Opera Company for 10 years singing roles ranging from Carmen and Manon to Marguerite. Engaged by the Max Strakosch Opera Company, she performed in Philadelphia as Leonora in Donizetti's "La favorita" in January of 1878. She returned to tour in the U.S. with the Carl Rosa Opera Company from 1883 to 1889. Marie Roze was first married to the operatic bass Jules E. Perkins and subsequently to Henry Mapleson, the son of the noted London and New York impressario. Good .
Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; OPERA; OPERATIC SOPRANO; SINGER; MARIE ROZE MAPLESON; AUTOGRAPH; SIGNATURE; INSCRIPTION; SIGNED; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY; STRAKOSCH OPERA COMPANY.
- Book number: 97543
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