Autograph Letter Signed, in French, to an unnamed male concert promoter.
Author:
Paul Duport (1798-1866), French playwright and critic [Lia Duport, singer; Adolphe-Joseph-Louis Alizard (d.1850), baritone singer]
Publication details:
25 September 1842; 148 rue Montmartre, Paris.
£150.00
SKU: 7018
12mo, 2 pp. 22 lines of text. Very good on aged paper. Text clear and entire. Replying on behalf of 'Mlle Lia Duport, ma fille' (who accepts the 'offre flatteuse') and 'Mr. Alizard' (who has not yet returned from Brussells, where he is 'engagé au théâtre de la Monnaie'). If Alizard is available his fee will be the same as Duport's daughter's. States the reduced fee for which his daughter will sing alone, 'Dans le cas où Mr. Alizard ne pourrait disposer de lui' ('ma fille, pour aller chanter seule dans un de vos concerts, comme elle l'a fait à plusiers Festivals, et récemment à celui de Dijon').