Otto Edelmann Austrian Opera Irmgard Seefried Hand Signed Autograph

PFAS25  Antique 5" x 2" autograph from the 1950s and from a former collectors autograph book containing a stunning character hand signed page for Otto Edelman famous Austrian bass opera singer who has personally autographed the card where his signature rests perfectly besides his photo undedicated and in truly outstanding condition..  On the reverse is a hand signing from Irmgard Seefried who was a leading German Soprano opera singer from the same era with her hand signing resting perfectly besides her photo undedicated in outstanding condition making this a truly unique double autograph opportunity of its kind.

Edelmann was born in Vienna and studied singing with Gunnar Graarud. His debut was at Gera as Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. He later sang the Vienna State Opera, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Metropolitan Opera. He sang at the Bayreuth Festival immediately after its reopening in 1951 after World War II, performing the role of Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von NÔøΩrnberg. (He also recorded as Veit Pogner the goldsmith in the same work in one of Hans Knappertsbusch's early recorded performances.) He also sang Ochs in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the first performances in the new Salzburg Festspielhaus in 1960. In 1957, he recorded the role of Wotan opposite Kirsten Flagstad in Georg Solti's recording of Act III of Wagner's Die WalkÔøΩre (an album made prior to the later famous complete set of Der Ring des Nibelungen). In 1982, he received a professorship for vocal pedagogy at the Vienna Music Academy. He died in Vienna at the age of 86.