Martin, Riccardo - Signed Photograph in La Gioconda Autographs Singers 50 or less I with Peter Pears

with Peter Pears

Strauss signed and inscribed this photograph on verso

Georgian soprano

Italian soprano and teacher (1882-1954)

Martin, Riccardo - Signed Photograph in La Gioconda Autographs Singers 50 or less I with Peter PearsAmerican tenor (1874 1952) who sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1907 1915 and again from 1917 18 and in his time with the company created the lead tenor roles in three American operas: Walter Damrosch's Cyrano, Horatio Parker's Mona and Frederick Shepherd Converse's The Pipe of Desire. Also sang frequently in Chicago and elsewhere in the United States as well as in Europe. Signed postcard photograph, shown as Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda,