Bruna Rasa, Lina - Typed Letter Signed 1935 [POLITICS] with Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and composer

with Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and composer Pietro Mascagni conducting

Top (left to right): Alfred Jerger (1889-1976)

and later became a music educator

water stains on verso

Bruna Rasa, Lina - Typed Letter Signed 1935 [POLITICS] with Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and composerItalian soprano (1907 1984), who excelled in the verismo repertoire, she was the composer Pietro Mascagni's favorite Santuzza in his opera Cavalleria Rusticana. She also created the roles of Atte in Mascagni's Nerone, Cecilia Sagredo in Franco Vittadini's La Sagredo and Saint Clare in Licinio Reficie's 1926 oratorio Trittico Francescano. Typed letter signed, 1 page, dated in Milan in 1935 on her own letterhead, bold and clear handwritten signature