Tamaki Miura (giapponese: 三浦環, 1884 – 1946) Tamaki made his operatic debut in Tokyo in 1911 and in the same year went to Europe to finish his studies. It was launched as Cio-Cio-San with the innovative director Vladimir Rosing as part of its opera season that held by the Allies in May and June 1915 at the London Opera House.In the fall of 1915 she played for the first time in America in Boston. The performance brought further positive opinion in Madama Butterfly is nell'Iris Mascagni in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, before returning to London to work with Beecham Company. In 1918 he returned to the United States, where for two seasons he has performed both in Madama Butterfly is in Madame Chrysanthemum André Messager. The latter has not been well received, being seen as a Madame Butterfly makeover. In 1920 he was guest of the best theaters in Monte Carlo, Barcelona, ​​Florence and Rome. On his return to Japan for this tour, he stopped in Nagasaki in 1922 for a series of concerts.In 1924 Miura returned to the US to perform with the Compagnia di San Carlo Theater. Two years later he returned to Chicago to play major roles in the theater company of the Manhattan Opera in New York Namiko-St. After that he participated in several tours and has sung in Italian (in March of 1931 she performed at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa with tenor Armando Bini, to Carani of Sassuolo which was completed at the end of 1930 and where the Miura April 29 1931 inaugurated the opera season, in Modena, Livorno, Florence, Lucca, Pistoia, Torino, Novi Ligure, Rimini) before returning to Japan in 1932.His statue, with that of Puccini, can be seen at the Glover Garden in Nagasaki.Writes the newspaper "The People Toscano" March 2, 1931 after the success at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa: "Tamaki Miura if not the great soprano voice, however, is the woman of the few who can play in all its most exquisite scenic sensitivity the character played kind. not much say we have said, but fine, delicate, intonatissima that in the acute reveals some excellent qualities. Absolute mastery of the scene in the most characteristic and dramatic points and to compensate wear any other requirement not met. L 'passionate and painful figure of Butterfly in the graceful figure and sentimental Miura emerges alive, breathing, moving and thrilling while the sweet Puccini's music transports and conquers. "Autographed photos of famous Japanese soprano. Photography; 25x19,2 cm Excellent condition