Francesco Albanese (Torre del Grecoo 1912 – Roma 2005) Offering a warm and expansive voice, very young he moved to the United States and studied in Boston, managing to win a major national competition.Back in Italy, in 1937 recorded the songs of the Neapolitan repertoire and Luna nova 'A vucchella, to interpret, the year after the soundtrack of the film that Napoli does not die of Hamlet Palermi. Later he was also the protagonist of Song, but softly ... by Guido Brignone (1946).He started his career on the operatic stage on June 10, 1940 at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome as Evandro Alceste, which was followed in 1942 Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at the Fenice in Venice. Since then he performed in major Italian and foreign opera houses, particularly in Germany, Spain, Portugal and South America. In 1952 she sang at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the second half with Armida Maria Callas, La traviata and Medea.He retired from the stage in 1961 with his wife's slave Francis Provencal at the San Carlo in Naples.He distinguished himself in titles such as The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, Falstaff, La Traviata, La Boheme, Faust, Louise, Der Freischütz. Among the best performances in music will remind Voice 'and night, Saint Lucia luntana, Marechiare, Piscatore' and Pusilleco, Silence cantatore, 'O surdato' nnammurato, Saint Lucia, Prisoner, Addio, mia bella Napoli !, Surdate and Na sera 'May.He married his second wife, the soprano Onelia Fineschi.Photography autograph of the famous tenor dated 1955 Photography; 17,6x12,8 cm Excellent condition