SCHIPA TITO: (1888-1965) Italian Tenor. An excellent signed and inscribed 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed ...

SCHIPA TITO: (1888-1965) Italian Tenor. An excellent signed and inscribed 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed from an autograph album, in Italian. Schipa cleanly annotates in bold blue ink `Alla carissima ed avvenente amica Marina, per ricordo imperituro del suo soggiorno a Milano durante le mie recite di ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' all Scala. Affettuosamente, Tito Schipa.´ (''To my dear and attractive friend Marina, for an everlasting reminder her stay in Milan during my performances of ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' at La Scala. Affectionately, Tito Schipa''). Also dated at the base, 14th January 1936, in Schipa´s hand. Small overall minor age toning to edges, otherwise about VG Provenance: The present page originates from the personal autograph album of Marina Chaliapin (1912-2009), the daughter of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), widely regarded as one of the finest bass singers of the 20th century, and his mistress Marina Petsold (1882-1964) who became the singer's second wife in 1927. Chaliapin's daughter was married to Luigi Freddi (1895-1977) the Italian journalist and politician who edited the journal Il Popolo d'Italia and who was also hugely influential in Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and beginning of the 1940s