Albanese, Licia - Merrill, Robert - Peters, Roberta - Stevens, Rise - photograph with multiple signatures Book shown in the title role

shown in the title role in Traviata

shown as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte at the Teatro Di Corte

conductor Azhkenazy

over a fiscal stamp

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

Albanese, Licia - Merrill, Robert - Peters, Roberta - Stevens, Rise - photograph with multiple signatures Book shown in the title rolePhotograph 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