Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Autographs singers E-H created the role of Adriana

created the role of Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) in the world premiere in 1902

St Luke Passion

Enid Szantho

Christian Boesch

in ink on light cardboard paper

Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Autographs singers E-H created the role of AdrianaFamous Italian tenor (1845 1896), whose career reached its height in the last 3 decades of the 1800s. After its foundation in 1883, Campanini served as the leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Signed cabinet photograph, shown as himself, inscribed and dated in Milan in 1874. Size is 4. 25 x 6. 5 inches, lower and left corners trimmed, 2 pinholes, and spotted rust stains, otherwise in good condition.