MAYHOFF, Maria Broadway Musicals A Glee Club was a

A Glee Club was a musical group that specialized in singing short songs - these clubs started to disappear in England after the 1850s

best remembered for her performance as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly

signed by the pianist on the program page and also signed by the Music Director Alfred Wallerstein

Concert at Carnegie Hall

MAYHOFF, Maria Broadway Musicals A Glee Club was aMezzo soprano whose full name was Maria Mayhoff Freudenberg, came to the U. S as a refugee from Nazi occupied Europe in the1930s. Signed photograph, shown as Amneris in Verdi's Aida, inscribed and dated in 1944. Printed signature on front of photographer James Abresch, New York. Size is 8. 25 x 10 inches, several creases and bends, otherwise in very good condition.