Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Autographs singers E-H in ink on light cardboard

in ink on light cardboard paper

Amazing half-tone photograph signed by him

later NY Philharmonic

created the role of Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) in the world premiere in 1902

shown as Rodrigo in Verdi's Otello

Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Autographs singers E-H in ink on light cardboardFamous Italian tenor (1845 1896), whose career reached its height in the last 3 decades of the 1800s. After its foundation in 1883, Campanini served as the leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Signed cabinet photograph, shown as himself, inscribed and dated in Milan in 1874. Size is 4. 25 x 6. 5 inches, lower and left corners trimmed, 2 pinholes, and spotted rust stains, otherwise in good condition.