Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Richard Wagner Signed photo of the Peruvian

Signed photo of the Peruvian soprano (1922-2004)

Signed photo shown in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann

sold without a transcription

sang at the world premiere of Mahler´s 8th Symphony in 1910

clear bold signature

Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Richard Wagner Signed photo of the PeruvianItalian ballerina (1853 1870), noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Coppelia (the famous ballet by Leo Delibes) when she was only 16 years old. Due to the temporary closing of the Paris Opera during the Franco Prussian war, and weakened by lack of food, she died of smallpox and fever in the day of her 17th birthday. Vintage CDV of the ballerina by photographer Reutlinger, Paris unsigned. Size is 2. 5 x 3. 75 inches, very rare!