NEVADA (Mignon, 1886-1971, Operatic Soprano)

Vintage Postcard Photo by Dover Street Studios Signed and inscribed, “With all best wishes”, showing her full length in costume as Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas’s opera Hamlet, 5½” x 3½”, no place, dated 25th July

She was born in Paris, daughter of the American operatic soprano Emma Nevada and her English husband Raymond Palmer. She was named after the title character of the 1866 opera Mignon, written by her godfather, French composer Ambroise Thomas. Her voice was light and agile, and her mother trained her to be a coloratura soprano, although Sir Thomas Beecham thought this was a mistake and she should have been a mezzo-soprano instead.

Item Date:  1935

Stock No:  43086      £75

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