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Giacomo Puccini with several singers in Genoa in May 1900, after the luncheon held in honor of the first performance of Tosca. In the following photograph, the following are identified: Giacomo Puccini, standing in the center. Standing to his right: Giuseppe Giacosa, a man with a beard and hat; next to him, soprano Lina Pasini Vitale, a woman with a hat; her surly, possessive, and jealous husband, Roman conductor Edoardo Vitale, at the bottom, first man seated from the right, holding a cigarette between his fingers; above, sitting on the brushwood to the left, baritone Mario Sammarco. The other guests present are unknown.

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Today is the Birthday from the Soprano Lillian Nordica (1857-1914). Here we see a Original Letter to the Pianohouse Steinway from 1894. She was a Star at the The Metropolitan Opera. There she was on more then 390 evenings on stage.