Photograph signed in full, dated, and inscribed to To Clarence Krause sincerely Richard Crooks 1935

by Richard Crooks

$50 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Bust-length portrait in formal attire, with hat. 178 x 129 mm.Slightly faded; creased at upper edge. American tenor Richard Crooks... first sang in opera at Hamburg as Cavaradossi in 1927... He made his American opera début in 1930 in Philadelphia as Cavaradossi, and his Metropolitan début as Massenet’s Des Grieux in 1933. He sang leading lyric roles, mostly French and Italian, with the company and elsewhere in the USA

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