Giuseppe Borgatti (Cento 1871 – Reno di Leggiuno 1950) It was born in Cento March 17, 1871. With the help of the Marquis Plattis, father of writer Maria Majocchi aka Yolanda, (1864-1917), studied at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna and made his debut in Faust in Castelfranco Veneto in 1892. In 1894 he played Manon Lescaut in Venice, Lohengrin at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan and sang in the premiere at the Teatro Regio in Turin I love teasing Gaetano Luporini. In 1896 he was the first star of Andrea Chénier at the Teatro alla Scala, obtaining a triumph, after which he performed with Lohengrin and La Gioconda at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1895 and in St. Petersburg in 1895-1896. He succeeded in Cairo in 1897 playing Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Bizet's Carmen and Proserpina by Camille Saint-Saëns, conducted by the author. In Buenos Aires in 1898 interpreted neel'opera Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele. In 1899 he sang in the premiere in the Teatro Argentina in Rome's Trill Stanislao Falchi devil. At the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1899 Rodolfo in La bohème. In 1902 in Osaka in Iris by Pietro Mascagni. In 1911 sings Siegfried. At La Scala in 1900 he sang in the first performance of Tosca. It followed that Anton Cesare Galeotti and then Tristan and Isolde, both conducted by Arturo Toscanini. He later said in Wagnerian repertoire in Europe and America, receiving great acclaim in Berlin in 1904. He became one of the finest Wagnerian performers of all time. He sang Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1897, Siegfried at the Teatro alla Scala in 1899, Tannhäuser at the Teatro Colón in 1901, Tristan and Isolde at La Scala in 1901, Rheingold, Italian premiere in 1903, the twilight of the gods at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna in 1909 and finally Parsifal, in the first complete performance in 1914. in 1904 he was invited at the Bayreuth Festival, the first singer of Latin origin to have this honor. In 1905 he sang in the recovery in the Teatro Regio (Torino) of Sigfrido directed by Toscanini. In 1906 he was the first Italian interpreter of Richard Strauss's Salome in Turin and in 1910 the first to sing Semirâma Ottorino Respighi in Bologna. In the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1907 she sings in the first performances of Tristan and Isolde, and in 1912, Rheingold. In 1909 he sang in the first performance at the Teatro Regio of Parma "Siegfried". photo Portrait of content in theatrical robes autographed Tina Poli Randaccio, Milano dated December 8, 1929. Photography; 22,3x29,5 cm Excellent condition