Puccini, Giacomo - Autograph Letter Signed 1906 HM - Space and Exploration Sepia-tones image advertising one of

Sepia-tones image advertising one of the many performances of this comic opera based on Alexandre Dumas´ classic The Three Musketeers

larger size photograph signed and dated by him in 1936

8 pages from the program + insert

inscribed and dated in New York in 1908

Italian tenor (1865-1943)

Puccini, Giacomo - Autograph Letter Signed 1906 HM - Space and Exploration Sepia-tones image advertising one ofFamous Italian opera composer (1858 1924), one of the greatest in the history of the genre. Interesting autograph letter signed, to his close friend Sybil Seligman, dated on November 8th, 1906. Puccini refers to having read one of Wildes plays (Florentine Tragedy), which he was in those days considering for an opera, mentions meeting with composers Isidore de Lara and Umberto Giordano in Paris and a recent bad performance of Madama Butterfly at Covent