Rosa Ponselle Autographs
Rosa Ponzillo, known as Rosa Ponselle (January 22, 1897 – May 25, 1981) was an American operatic dramatic soprano.
She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.
She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut, the youngest of three children. The family lived on the city's west side in a neighbourhood chiefly populated by immigrants from Southern Italy, first at the corner of Lewis Avenue and Bartlett Street, then on Foster Street, where Ponselle was born, moving when she was three to Springdale Avenue. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Caiazzo, near Caserta. Ponselle had an exceptionally mature voice at an early age and, at least in her early years, sang on natural endowment with little, if any, vocal training. Instead, her early prowess as a piano student (which was cultivated by a local music teacher, Anna Ryan, the organist of a nearby Catholic church), seemed to incline Rosa to instrumental rather than vocal music. But with the influence and example of her older sister, Carmela, who was then pursuing a career as a cabaret singer, Rosa began to augment her engagements as a silent-movie accompanist in and around Meriden by singing popular ballads to her audiences while the projectionist changed film reels. By 1914, her reputation as a singer led to a long-term engagement at the San Carlino theater, one of the largest movie houses in New Haven, near the Yale campus.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Rosa Ponselle (Rosa Ponselle Opera Singer Signed Inscribed Photo) was sold in August 2009 for $599.21 while the cheapest item (Rosa Ponselle operatic soprano autographed card) found a new owner for $4.25 in April 2011. The month with the most items sold (4) was April 2026 with an average selling price of $59.00 for an autographed item of Rosa Ponselle. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2022 with $525.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $4.25 was April 2011. In average, an autographed item from Rosa Ponselle is worth $39.99.
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