Ruffo, Titta - Signed Photo as Tonio Mousepads Prints British conductor (1868-1939)

British conductor (1868-1939)

Flower maiden from Parsifal (handwritten year on verso 1892)

who left a good amount of recordings

dated in 1880

Ruffo, Titta - Signed Photo as Tonio Mousepads Prints British conductor (1868-1939)Star Italian baritone (1877 1953) whose real name was actually Ruffo Titta Cafiero (Ruffo was his first name) He developed a long and very successful career in the Americas and Europe. Signed photo, shown as Tonio in Pagliacci at the Chicago Lyric Opera, inscribed. A GORGEOUS, original photo by photographer Matzene, Chicago. Size is 5. 25 x 9 inches, apparently a triangular section over the right of the photo was accidentally trimmed and glued back