GIUSEPPE F. VERDI - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/18/1889 CO-SIGNED BY: MARIA MASSARI WALDMANN - HFSID 286064
Price: $5,750.00
VERDI WRITES TO MARIA WALDMANN WHO APPEARED IN HIS FIRST PRODUCTION OF
AIDA IN MILAN
GIUSEPPE VERDI. ALS: "G. Verdi", 1p, 4½x3½. Sant'Agate,
1889 November 18. To his close friend, Maria Massari Waldmann. In
Italian, partially translated. In part: "Thank you, my dear Maria, and
thanks to your kind Duke for the affectionate remembrance...Greetings to the Duke
and a warm handshake...." On February 8, 1872, mezzo-soprano MARIA MASSARI
WALDMANN starred as Amneris in the Milan premiere of Aida under
Verdi's direction. At the time of this letter, Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
spent part of the year at the Villa Verdi at St. Agata diBusseto, close to his
birthplace in Le Roncole, and part in Genoa in an apartment in the Palazzo
Doria. Inscription on verso of Verdi's letter, in Italian: "To my
dear/friend Margherita/from/Maria Massari/Zavaglia/Ferrara, 22-1-905". There
is a collection of nearly 100 letters from Verdi to Waldmann in La Biblioteca
del Conservatorio "G.B. Martini" in Bologna, Italy. Lightly stained. Overall,
fine condition.
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