DON JUAN PLAY CAST - PROGRAM PAGE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: LUIGI ALVA, SIR GERAINT EVANS, EBERHARD WACHTER, JEANETTE SCOVOTTI, FRANZ CRASS - HFSID 161348

DON JUAN OPERA CAST: EBERHARD WACHTER, LUIS ALVA, GERAINT EVANS, JEANETTE SCOVOTTI and FRANZ CRASS
Internationally celebrated opera stars Wachter, Alva, Evans, Scovotti and Crass sign next their photograph on page torn from program, which features their Buenos Aires production of Don Juan. Very rare!
Program page signed: "Eberhard Waechter", "Luis Alva", "Geriant Evans", "Jeanette Scovotti" and "Franz Crass" in blue ink. 1 page, 6x8½. Program page from September 1963 production of Mozart's Don Juan in at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EBERHARD WACHTER (1929-1992) was an Austrian baritone celebrated for his performances in the operas of Mozart, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss which he performed in famed venues around the world. After retiring from singing he spent the rest of his life as an administrator of the Vienna Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera. LUIS ALVA (b. 1927) was a Peruvian tenor and known as the "King of Light Tenors" in the 1950s and 1960s. Alva was one of the most exquisite interpreters of Mozart and Rossini as well as some Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. Some of his best-known roles are Count Almaviava in Rossini's Barber of Seville and Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff. Alva first performed at the Met (in Falstaff) in 1964. GERAINT EVANS (1922-1992) made his operatic debut as the night watchman in Wagner's Die Meistersinger at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1948. The role Evans was most associated with is the titular role in Verdi's Falstaff, which he first played in 1950 and subsequently in all major opera houses. He was also the first British singer, since Eva Turner, to play major leading roles in Italian opera houses on a regular basis. JEANETTE SCOVOTTI (b. 1936) is an American coloratura soprano who appeared on Broadway in Li'l Abner (1956) before turning to opera, becoming a regular at the Metropolitan Opera in productions of La sonnambula, Boris Godunov, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni and Falstaff; she also traveled the country in venues such as the San Francisco Opera, the Lake George Opera Company, and the Tanglewood Festival in Massachsetts. Her many recordings are still available today. FRANTZ BRASS (1928-2012) was a German bass singer was internationally renowned for singing the operatic works of Mozart such as The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and Requiem. Toned. Right edge frayed and torn. Heavily stained. Ink slightly smeared. Worn and soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.