Item #20686 Group of 4 letters consisting of three autograph letters and one secretarial letter signed, all addressed to Count Guglielmo Vinci. Francesco GRAZIANI.

Group of 4 letters consisting of three autograph letters and one secretarial letter signed, all addressed to Count Guglielmo Vinci

6 pp. in total. October 27, 1893; June 20, 1895; October 30, 1895; October 11, 1889. Regarding business matters, meetings, commissions, etc. In Italian (with translations).

Minor browning; one letter with file holes just affecting text; one with file holes not affecting text.

"[Graziani] made his début in 1851 at Ascoli Piceno in Donizetti’s Gemma di Vergy and the following season sang Francesco in Verdi’s I masnadieri at Macerata. He appeared at the Théâtre Italien, Paris, from 1853 to 1861 and made his London début at Covent Garden in 1855 as Carlo in Ernani, continuing to appear there regularly for the next 25 years. Though his repertory was enormous, ranging from Mozart (Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro), Rossini (Otello, La donna del lago and Guillaume Tell), Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor, Linda di Chamounix and La favorite), and Bellini (La sonnambula and I puritani) to Flotow’s Martha, Gounod’s Faust, Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine and Thomas’ Hamlet, it was in Verdi roles that his greatest successes were gained ... [He]was said to possess one of the finest baritone voices heard in the second half of the 19th century." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online.

Item #20686

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