Cavalieri, Lina - Signed Photo Postcard Impresarios student of Gerard Hekking

student of Gerard Hekking

Polish-born soprano (b

matted with a nice photograph of the composer reading a score

shown as Desdemona in Otello

Cavalieri, Lina - Signed Photo Postcard Impresarios student of Gerard HekkingStar Italian soprano, actress and monologist (1874 1944), who escaped a Roman Catholic orphanage and made her way to Paris at a very young age, where she began her career singing at cafe concerts. After singing with Enrico Caruso in the opera Fedora (by Umberto Giordano), they took the opera to New York, debuting in the Metropolitan Opera, where she became one of the most photographed stars, for her beauty and talent. Signed photo postcard, shown as