Strauss, Richard - Krauss, Clemens - Beilke, Irma - Capriccio World Premiere Photograph Conductors Wilhelm Gruning as Parsifal (handwritten

Wilhelm Gruning as Parsifal (handwritten year on verso 1892)

active in films from 1943 to 1990

some paper loss on right not affecting the signature or inscribed text

Gencer's repertoire encompassed over seventy roles

Strauss, Richard - Krauss, Clemens - Beilke, Irma - Capriccio World Premiere Photograph Conductors Wilhelm Gruning as Parsifal (handwrittenGerman opera composer (1864 1949), considered one of the greatest of the 20th century, Austrian conductor (1893 1954) and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, and Richard Wagner, and German soprano (1904 1989). Unsigned photograph of all three of them taken at the 1942 World Premiere performances of Strauss's opera Capriccio at the Munich National Theatre for which Krauss also conducted and wrote