Printed visiting card with short autograph sentiment dated 4/1/1916

by Pompilio 1879-? Malatesta

$35 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

On card stock 60 x 98 mm., laid down to mounting sheet 85 x 119 mm. Malatesta is thought to have made debut in 1898 at the Teatro Quirino in Roma as Guritano in ‘’Ruy Blas.’’ He sang at Covent Garden in London in 1914, joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1915 and sang there for many seasons.

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