Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph playbills opera Walter Berry

Walter Berry

Framed together with an engraving showing Catalani at a young age

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

which was the first season of the Metropolitan ever

Triple signed photo shown in Lohengrin

Giacosa, Giuseppe - Signed Photograph playbills opera Walter BerryItalian 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.