Bust-length Mishkin photograph of the operatic conductor in formal dress with autograph signature

by Giorgio Polacco

$75 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Signed

Signed in full in black ink and dated New York, 1915. With Mishkin copyright in the plate in white to lower left.Laid down to mounting sheet. Polacco made his Metropolitan début in 1912 at the Metropolitan Opera with Manon Lescaut, and remained there until 1917, succeeding Toscanini as director of the Italian repertory in 1915. ... His performances were noted for precision and vigour and, in addition to Wagner and Italian operas, he

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