Bust-length photograph signed in full and inscribed to Bruce Johnson

by Dusolina Giannini

$40 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Ca. 143 x 96 mm.Minor creasing to upper right corner; signature and inscription slightly smudged, but legible. Dusolina Giannini made her operatic début at Hamburg as Aida in 1925. Subsequent engagements took her to Berlin, Vienna and Covent Garden, as well as to Salzburg 1934–6 , where she sang Donna Anna under Walter and Alice Ford under Toscanini. In 1938 she created the part of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter, an opera

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