Bust-length Mishkin photograph of the operatic conductor in formal dress with autograph signature
- SIGNED
Signed in full in black ink and dated New York, 1915. With Mishkin copyright in the plate in white to lower left.
Laid down to mounting sheet. Polacco made his Metropolitan début in 1912 at the Metropolitan Opera with Manon Lescaut, "and remained there until 1917, succeeding Toscanini as director of the Italian repertory in 1915. ... His performances were noted for precision and vigour and, in addition to Wagner and Italian operas, he became a leading conductor of French opera under Garden’s influence at Chicago. He appeared at Covent Garden in 1912–13, and made his last appearances there, in 1930, conducting Pelléas et Mélisande with Maggie Teyte, who, in her autobiography (1958), described him as that opera’s ‘ideal interpreter’." Richard D. Fletcher in Grove Music Online
Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) served as the Metropolitan Opera's official portraitist from 1908-1932, producing an important body of work documenting "The Golden Age of Opera.
Laid down to mounting sheet. Polacco made his Metropolitan début in 1912 at the Metropolitan Opera with Manon Lescaut, "and remained there until 1917, succeeding Toscanini as director of the Italian repertory in 1915. ... His performances were noted for precision and vigour and, in addition to Wagner and Italian operas, he became a leading conductor of French opera under Garden’s influence at Chicago. He appeared at Covent Garden in 1912–13, and made his last appearances there, in 1930, conducting Pelléas et Mélisande with Maggie Teyte, who, in her autobiography (1958), described him as that opera’s ‘ideal interpreter’." Richard D. Fletcher in Grove Music Online
Herman Mishkin (1870-1948) served as the Metropolitan Opera's official portraitist from 1908-1932, producing an important body of work documenting "The Golden Age of Opera.