Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph Autographs Composers 20 January 1912

20 January 1912

at the Royal Opera House in Convent Garden

Blind stamped on top left by photographer

teacher and important musical figure

in zarzuelas

Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph Autographs Composers 20 January 1912Italian 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.