ITALO TAJO - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1969 - HFSID 154090
Sale Price $180.00
Reg. $200.00
ITALO TAJO
Tajo signed this sepia-toned photo of himself - from the chest up, in costume
and with a feather in his hair - in white ink in 1969.
Inscribed photograph signed "To Dante Pilane/Cordially/Italo Tajo/1969"
in white ink. B/w sepia-toned, 8¾x6½, mounted to cardboard. Tajo
(1915-1993, born in Pinerolo, Italy) was an Italian bass opera singer. He
started out singing in a church choir and decided to pursue singing as a career
- this, despite the opposition from his father, who wanted Tajo to be a doctor.
He debuted as Fafner in Wagner's Das Rheingold at the Teatro Regio in
Turin, Italy. The conductor, Fritz Busch, was so impressed with Tajo that he
invited the young singer to the Glyndebourne Festival that year as an understudy
and chorus member. He served in Rome during World War II; his light duties gave
him time for performances at the Rome Opera, including a performance as the
Doctor in the first Italian production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Tajo
debuted in America at the Chicago Opera in 1946 as Ramfis in Verdi's Aida
and at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Basilio, and later Figaro, in Mozart's
The Marriage of Figaro. Photo is lightly creased. Cardboard mounting is
bowed and has paper loss on back. Otherwise in fine condition.
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