Giachetti, Ada - Signed Photograph Print conductor and music educator (1816-1875)

conductor and music educator (1816-1875)

shown in role dated in Vienna in 1919

Belgian soprano (1834-1907)

Also handwritten with a short sentiment and signed on verso

Giachetti, Ada - Signed Photograph Print conductor and music educator (1816-1875)Italian soprano (1876 ?), perhaps best known as a lover of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, with whom she had a relationship between 1897 1908 and for whom she left her husband and son, although never married him. Beautiful photograph signed and inscribed by her, shown as herself, inscribed. Actual photograph is 4. 75 x 6. 25 inches mounted onto larger cardboard for a total size of 6. 75 x 8. 75 inches, small stains to the left of the image,