ROSE BAMPTON - INSCRIBED SIGNATURE 03/05/1938 - HFSID 19012
Sale Price $126.00
Reg. $140.00
ROSE BAMPTON
The American soprano signs her autograph the year after she gave her first performance as a soprano (rather than a mezzo-soprano) at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she performed for 18 seasons.
Inscribed signature: "To Perry/Rose Bampton/March 5 1938", 6x4½ album leaf. Name and date written in unknown hand at lower margin. Rose Bampton (1907-2007) was an American operatic contralto who made her debut as Siébel in Gounod's Faust at the Chautaugua Opera in 1929. She sang several times with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, bringing her to the attention of New York's Metropolitan Opera. In addition to singing for 18 seasons (1932-1950) with the Met, first as a mezzo-soprano and then as a soprano, Bampton appeared with companies in Chicago, San Francisco and Buenos Aires, and she sang regularly with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras. Bampton, whose repertory included Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Alceste and several Wagnerian roles, also made a number of recordings. Bampton was married to Wilfrid Pelletier, a Conductor at the Met and the first Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, from 1937 until his death in 1982. Lightly creased. Binding holes at blank left margin. Fine condition.
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