Un Ballo in Maschera - Naples 1859 Libretto recently_added Famous Italian baritone (1868-1930)

Famous Italian baritone (1868-1930)

stamped on verso by photographer Karl Schuster

Vienna - Theater an der Wien

Two-volume edition of Wagner's Biography by Adolphe Jullien

Un Ballo in Maschera - Naples 1859 Libretto recently_added Famous Italian baritone (1868-1930)First edition libretto for a performance in Naples of Un Ballo In Maschera, in the same year or its world premiere in Rome (1859). The opera was just premiered after a long, complicated fight with the censors, and the action had to be moved to Boston instead of Europe, and the Naples premiere followed soon after the Rome world premiere. Libretto has no covers but is otherwise complete, 4. 25 x 6. 75 inches, in very good condition.