Renata Tebaldi (Pesaro, 1922– Città di San Marino, 2004) He studied at the Conservatory of Parma with Italo Brancucci and Ettore Campogalliani and then to the "High School Musical Gioachino Rossini" in Pesaro with the famous soprano Carmen Melis. In 1944 he made his debut in Rovigo in the role of Elena in Mefistofele. In 1946 he made his debut at La Scala in reopening concert after reconstruction under the direction of Arturo Toscanini, singing the prayer of Moses in Egypt and the short only of Verdi's Te Deum (event for which a recording exists). In the first part of faced career with excellent results Wagner's operas in Italian (Celebrated her Elsa in Lohengrin, as well as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser) and Mozart titles (the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro in particular). The American debut was in 1950 interpreting Aida at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, where he faced the same year for the first time the role of the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and where appeared until 1965. In the early fifties he also toured South America. On 31 January 1955 he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, as Desdemona in triumphing alongside Mario Del Monaco. The appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, became the headquarters of his activities following the temporary break with the Teatro alla Scala, followed one another with great regularity for eighteen years, from '55 to '73 (about two hundred and seventy representations: it was called the "Queen of the Met "), in works such as La Bohème, Andrea Chénier, Tosca, Aida, Madama Butterfly, La forza del destino, La traviata, Manon Lescaut, Simon Boccanegra, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Gioconda, La Fanciulla del West, Falstaff, the bat. [ 3] From 1955 to 1965 she sang in forty performances at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1955 she performed in Tosca at the Royal Opera House in London. At the Wiener Staatsoper he appeared in Tosca and Otello in 1958, in Aida in 1959 and in Andrea Chénier in 1960. He participated in a total of eighteen performances in the Viennese theater. He touched also all other major theaters in the world: Paris, Barcelona, ​​Berlin, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Japan. Most famous remained the rivalry with Maria Callas, fed, even more than the stars, from their most ardent fans. Whatever the case, September 16, 1968 Callas went backstage to congratulate the Metropolitan strongly after a performance nell'Adriana Lecouvreur, marking the final reconciliation between the two singers. Portrait photo autographed soprano. Photography; 20,5x25 cm Excellent condition