Rakowska, Elena - Signed Photograph in role 1914 recently_added 1946) shown in performance

1946) shown in performance

a successful actress in film

shown as Fiesco in Verdi's Simon Bocanegra

mounted on a slightly larger mat to a total size of 4

François Léon Hirt was in the house [of my father]

Rakowska, Elena - Signed Photograph in role 1914 recently_added 1946) shown in performanceUkrainian born soprano (1883 1964), was the wife of famous conductor Tullio Serafin, who she married in 1915. Signed photograph, shown in role (possibly Richard Strauss's Salome), inscribed in Bologna and dated in 1914. Size is 6 x 9. 75 inches, slight paper loss and creases on edges as well as mounting traces on verso, otherwise in good condition.