Verdi, Giuseppe - Handwritten Letter and Portrait Print Autographs Singers 50 or less P-Q German tenor (1863-1922)

German tenor (1863-1922)

Note was originally broken in 2 pieces and later glued back together leaving a barely visible line in the center (click on thumbnail photos to see in more detail)

Complete program for a concert in Brussels in 1980

"the most successful dramatic tenor yet produced by the United States and a pillar of the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s and 1970s"

5 March 1900

Verdi, Giuseppe - Handwritten Letter and Portrait Print Autographs Singers 50 or less P-Q German tenor (1863-1922)Autograph letter, handwritten by the great composer, mounted on mat with a very nice print (which includes a facsimile signature). Letter is untranslated and unsigned, one page, has letterhead of the Grand Hotel de Milan where Verdi stayed many times when he was in Milan. Dated in March 1898, this is a letter draft with some corrections and was probably torn appart by the composer, glued back together by unknown hand.