?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
OFFERS OWN TICKET TO PREMIERE SINCE "NOT ONE SEAT IS AVAILABLE" MEYERBEER, GIACOMO. Autograph Letter Signed, "Meyerbeer," to an unnamed recipient ("Monsieur"), in French, offering his own ticket to the sold-out premiere of his opera, Le prophète [not present]. 1 page, 8vo, embossed personal stationery, with integral blank; cello tape at upper left corner, folds; matted with a portrait and framed. Paris, 15 April 1849
"Following your desire that you . . . would like to have one seat reserved at the premiere of Prophète, I asked the administration of the Opera, which responded to me that everything is already rented out and that not one seat is available. "If . . . you wished to do me the honor of accepting the ticket included herein that belongs to me, I will have the honor to be able to offer it to you . . . ."
