Autograph musical quotation from his opera Amica
Notated in brown ink on a correspondence card with "Teatro Sociale Udine ... Direzione" printed in blue ink to upper left. 102 x 134 mm. Signed and dated by Mascagni "Udine 15. 6 [June] [1]908."
2 measures sung by the character Giorgio in Act I scene vi, "Di questi fiori al men(o) ..."
Slightly browned.
Together with a postcard photograph published in ca. 1908 of Mascagni at a young age.
Amica, an opera in 2 acts with libretto by the publisher "P. Béral" (pseudonym of the French music publisher Paul de Choudens), was first performed in Monte Carlo at the Casino on 16 March 1905. The opera "signalled a return to verismo and a renewed attention to orchestral models." Michele Girardi in Grove Music Online.
Item #39112
Price: $350.00 other currencies