Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph playbills opera very small-sized blind stamp over

very small-sized blind stamp over the lower-right front part of the photograph

declaring him the "first bass" of the theatre

Framed together with an engraving showing Catalani at a young age

German tenor (1902-1977)

Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph playbills opera very small-sized blind stamp overItalian poet (1847 1906), playwright & librettist, well known for writing the libretto of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, and Madama Butterfly. Large size cabinet style photograph signed by him, dated in Milan, 1905, inscribed to Bianca Chigi Kaschmann, daughter of the famed baritone Giuseppe Kaschmann. Size is 6. 75 x 9. 7 inches, minor stains, irregularly cut and trimmed on the top and bottom, otherwise in excellent condition.