Puccini, Giacomo - Autograph Letter Signed 1906 Singers Russia Large photograph shown as himself

Large photograph shown as himself

typewritten

Conductor: Paul Hindemith with Josef Metternich - Richard Holm - Hertha Topper

dated in 1985

Puccini, Giacomo - Autograph Letter Signed 1906 Singers Russia Large photograph shown as himselfFamous Italian opera composer (1858 1924), one of the greatest in the history of the genre. Interesting autograph letter signed, to his close friend Sybil Seligman, dated on November 8th, 1906. Puccini refers to having read one of Wildes plays (Florentine Tragedy), which he was in those days considering for an opera, mentions meeting with composers Isidore de Lara and Umberto Giordano in Paris and a recent bad performance of Madama Butterfly at Covent