BOOTH, Margery Autographs Actors - Letter X-Y-Z dated in London 1993

dated in London 1993

who wrote librettos for several of Michael Balfe's operas including The Bohemian Girl and The Maid of Artois

conductor Azhkenazy

shown in the world premiere production of Francois Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites at La Scala

signed and dated by the soprano on June 18th

BOOTH, Margery Autographs Actors - Letter X-Y-Z dated in London 1993Margery Myers Booth (1906 1952) was a British mezzo soprano who emigrated to Germany during WWII and became a spy. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and tortured, she was later released by the liberating army. Not being recognized for what she did after her return to London, Myers Booth emigrated to New York where she died of breast cancer in 1952, at age 46. Rare signed postcard photograph, shown as Dryade in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos dated