Original bust-length photograph

by Carlo Edwards, New York, of the celebrated Italian tenor with hat and cravat by Beniamino Gigli

$125 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

With name and address of photographer embossed to lower right corner. Ca. 250 x 187 mm. Corners slightly worn; annotations in pencil and red ink to verso. In 1914 Gigli won an international competition at Parma, and on 14 October that year made a successful début in La Gioconda at Rovigo. In 1915 his Faust in Boito’s Mefistofele was highly appreciated at Bologna under Serafin and at Naples under Mascagni. Spain was the scene

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