Mattiwilda Dobbs as Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto"

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Portrait of soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs as Gilda in Verdi's opera, "Rigoletto." Stamped on back: "Photograph by Helga Sharland, 40 St. Margarets Rd., Edgware, Middx. Phone: STO. 7864." Handwritten on back: "Mattiwilda Dobbs as Gilda in 'Rigoletto,' Covent Garden, 1954."

Details

Creator:: Sharland, Helga
Resource ID:: hk000741
Subject:: Dobbs, Mattiwilda; African American women singers; Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Rigoletto; Photographers--England--Middlesex; Photographic prints
Date:: 1954
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: E. Azalia Hackley Collection
Location:: Biography--Dobbs, Mattiwilda
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.