Albanese, Licia - Merrill, Robert - Peters, Roberta - Stevens, Rise - photograph with multiple signatures Book Italian guitarist (1923-2010)

Italian guitarist (1923-2010)

one of the first American-born leading tenors at the Metropolitan Opera in New York

Richard Tucker

1941) shown as Walther in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Albanese, Licia - Merrill, Robert - Peters, Roberta - Stevens, Rise - photograph with multiple signatures Book Italian guitarist (1923-2010)Photograph showing 14 star operatic performers (singers and conductors) from the 1940s, 50s and 60s mostly in costume with signatures from 4 of them, sopranos Licia Alabanses and Roberta Peters, mezzo soprano Rise Stevens and baritone Robert Merrill. Also shown here are among others are such leading stars as soprano Dorothy Kirsten, bass Salvatore Baccaloni, tenor Ferrucio Tagliavini, tenor Giovanni Martinelli, soprano Lily Pons, tenor Giuseppe Di