Bidspirit auction | GALLI-MARIÉ CÉLESTINE: (1840-1905)

GALLI-MARIÉ CÉLESTINE: (1840-1905) - GALLI-MARIÉ CÉLESTINE: (1840-1905) French mezzo-soprano, famous for creating the title role in Georges Bizet´s opera Carmen (1875). A.L.S., Galli-Marié , to the recto of her attractive monogrammed correspondence card, n.p., n.d., to a gentleman, in French. The singer writes an intriguing, brief letter, in full, ´Va pour moitié aux turcs moitié aux russes - cela me manque grandement aussi! Mais que vont dire les serbes??!´ (Translation: ´Half to the Turks, half to the Russians – I miss that terribly too! But what will the Serbs say??!´ ). Together with a good unsigned carte-de-visite photograph, the oval sepia albumen print by Eugène Maunoury of Paris depicting Galli-Marié standing in a three-quarter length pose in costume. With the photographer´s imprint to the lower mount and verso. VG, 2