MELIS, Carmen Playbills Opera Double signed photo of the

Double signed photo of the German soprano (b

showing them in roles in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur

with a short handwritten text by him on verso

Signature attached to halftone photo

8 pages in near mint condition

MELIS, Carmen Playbills Opera Double signed photo of theItalian soprano (1885 1967) who had a very important international career in the 1910s and 20s, retired in 1935 and became a voice teacher superstar Renata Tebaldi was one of her students. Signed half tone postcard photograph, shown as Ginevra in the December 1924 world premiere production of Giordano's La cena delle beffe at La Scala, Milan. Inscribed with sentiment, dated in Milan in 1925 in attractive white ink. Size is 3. 25 x 5. 25 inches, in