Role portrait photograph of the soprano in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Signed in full

by Licia Albanese

$25 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Three-quarter length portrait. Ca. 253 x 203 mm. Licia Albanese began her career at the Teatro Lirico, Milan, where in 1934 she was an emergency replacement for an indisposed Butterfly in the second half of the opera. The same opera, always closely identified with her, occasioned her formal début at Parma 1935 and her début at the Metropolitan 1940 . During her career she made more than 1000 appearances in 48 roles, in the lyric or lirico

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