Crabbe, Armand - Signed Photograph Autographs Ballet Battistini is today known as

Battistini is today known as "The King of Baritones"

Wife of Albert Niemann

dated by him in 1998

celebrating the 100th anniversary since the Festival was inaugurated and the first performance of the 4 operas together as a cycle

Crabbe, Armand - Signed Photograph Autographs Ballet Battistini is today known asBelgian baritone (1883 1947) who made his debut in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, a leading performer at the Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, and Chicago Grand Opera. Signed photograph, shown as himself inscribed and dated in Buenos Aires in 1925. Photo size is 6. 5 x 9 inches, mounted on cardboard, total item size is 9 x 11 inches, some rust and mounting traces on the edges of the photo, otherwise in good condition.