20-2, 015-04, 1880s, Cabinet Card, Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) Operatic Soprano

Description: 20-2, 015-04, 1880s, Cabinet Card, Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) Operatic Soprano Click images to enlarge Description You are bidding on an original Antique 1880's Cabinet Card Photograph, Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929) Operatic Soprano, about 35 years old. To see all of my "Cabinet Cards" click here. Family Tree (see last image). More Info: Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, later Elisabeth Maria Lehmann-Kalisch (24 November 1848 – 17 May 1929) was a German operatic dramatic coloratura soprano. She was also a voice teacher. The future opera star's father, Karl-August Lehmann, was a singer (Heldentenor) while her mother, Maria Theresia Löw (1809–1885), was a soprano. Her younger sister, Marie, also went on to become an operatic soprano. Her first lessons were from her mother, who had been a prima donna under Spohr at the Cassel opera. After singing small parts on the stage, for example in Mozart's Magic Flute at Prague in 1866, and studies under Heinrich Laube in Leipzig, Lehmann made her proper debut in 1870 in Berlin as a light soprano in Meyerbeer's Das Feldlager in Schlesien. She subsequently became so successful that she was appointed an Imperial Chamber Singer for life in 1876. Lehmann sang in the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, singing in the first complete performances of The Ring Cycle as Woglinde and Helmwige. She performed in London in 1884, and appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1885–1899. Together with her Met colleagues Fischer, Alvary, Brandt, and Seidl, she helped to popularise Wagner's music in America. By remaining in America beyond the leave granted her by the Berlin Opera, she faced a ban following her return to Germany. After the personal intervention of the Emperor, the ban was lifted. She was also a noted voice teacher. Among her pupils were the famous sopranos Geraldine Farrar, Viorica Ursuleac, Edytha Fleischer, Olive Fremstad; the mezzo-sopranos Lula Mysz-Gmeiner and Marion Telva; and the contralto and composer Florence Wickham. Longtime Juilliard School professor of voice Lucia Dunham, who trained many other famous singers, was also one of her pupils. She died 17 May 1929 in Berlin, Germany. She is buried at Friedhof Dahlem in Berlin, Germany. (ref. Wikipedia) Recordings "Court Opera Classics" from 1906-1907: Nr Title Odeon Matrix Date 01 Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Schubert) 50094 XB 1304 1906 06 29 02 Freudvoll und leidvoll (Beethoven) 50078 XB 1306 1906 06 29 03 Long, long ago (Bayly) 50071 XB 1307 1906 06 29 04 Im Kahne (Grieg) 50100 XB 1470 1906 05 Robin Adair (Scotch air) 50097 XB 1475 1906 06 Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) 50096 XB 1475-2 1906 07 Erlkönig (Schubert) 80004 XXB 1475-3 1906 08 “Don Giovanni”: Don Ottavio, son morta! … Or sai chi l’onore (Mozart) 50098/99 XB 1478/79 1906 09 “La Traviata”: Ah, fors’ è lui (Verdi) 80003 XXB 1473 1906 10 “La Traviata”: Ah, fors’ è lui (Verdi) 50353/54 XB 2976/77 1906 06 18 11 “Norma”: Casta diva (Bellini) 99737 XB 2978 1906 06 18 12 “Entführung”: Ach ich liebte (Mozart) 80008 XXB 2980 1906 06 18 13 “Don Giovanni”: Or sai chi l’onore (Mozart) 50398 XB 2981 1906 06 18 14 “Don Giovanni”: Non mi dir, bell’idol mio (Mozart) 50396/99 XB 3045/46 1907 15 “La Traviata”: Alfredo, Alfredo (Verdi) 50374 XB 3047 1907 Back is blank (with writing). Photographer: Falk, 949 Broadway, NY More Info: Benjamin J. Falk Time Period: 1877-1915 Location: 347 E. 14th Street, 947 Broadway, 13 W. 24th Street Biography: (1853-1925) When Napoleon Sarony died in 1896, Benjamin J. Falk ascended to the first place in the world of performing arts photography. Born on October 14th, 1853, Benjamin J. Falk grew up in New York City. He graduated from the College of the City of New York with a B.S. in 1872, while concurrently serving as a technician under photographer George Rockwood. His first ambition was to be a graphic artist, so he attended classes at the NY Academy of Design while maintaining a studio with Jacob Schloss. "Being naturally of an investigating turn of mind he interested himself in scientific studies. After making crayons for five years, he enlarged his studio into a photographic gallery. In 1881 he moved to Broadway, where the business grew rapidly, developing largely in the line of portraits of celebrities." Falk’s first studio, located on 14th street, became wholly devoted to photography in 1877. His distance from the theater district, however, prompted his 1881 relocation to 947-49 Broadway. The Broadway Studio served for 11 years until high-rises obscured the sunlight needed to maintain a day long shooting schedule, forcing him to relocate to 13-15 East 24th Street. In 1900, Falk relocated to the roof of the Waldorf Astoria. The solarium supplied superb natural light during the day, and his 25x30 operating room became the envy of the photographic fraternity. Card size: 4.25" x 6.5". #20-2, 015-04 The Cabinet Card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm (4+1⁄4 by 6+1⁄2 inches). The carte de visite was displaced by the larger cabinet card in the 1880s. In the early 1860s, both types of photographs were essentially the same in process and design. Both were most often albumen prints, the primary difference being the cabinet card was larger and usually included extensive logos and information on the reverse side of the card to advertise the photographer’s services. However, later into its popularity, other types of papers began to replace the albumen process. Despite the similarity, the cabinet card format was initially used for landscape views before it was adopted for portraiture. Some cabinet card images from the 1890s have the appearance of a black-and-white photograph in contrast to the distinctive sepia toning notable in the albumen print process. These photographs have a neutral image tone and were most likely produced on a matte collodion, gelatin or gelatin bromide paper. Sometimes images from this period can be identified by a greenish cast. Gelatin papers were introduced in the 1870s and started gaining acceptance in the 1880s and 1890s as the gelatin bromide papers became popular. Matte collodion was used in the same period. A true black-and-white image on a cabinet card is likely to have been produced in the 1890s or after 1900. The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924. Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from across the room when typically displayed on a cabinet, which is probably why they became known as such in the vernacular. However, when the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady first started offering them to his clientele towards the end of 1865, he used the trademark "Imperial Carte-de-Visite." Whatever the name, the popular print format joined the photograph album as a fixture in the late 19th-century Victorian parlor. (ref. 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Price: 89.96 USD

Location: Warsaw, Indiana

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