Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Programs Ballet Empoli and Pontedera

Empoli and Pontedera

His life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine

Hungarian soprano (1919-2002)

each one signed on verso by music and arts photographer Jim Arkatov

Campanini, Italo - Signed Cabinet Photograph 1874 Programs Ballet Empoli and PontederaFamous 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.