GRISI, Giulia. 21016

£200

Description

Autograph Letter Signed ‘G.Grisi’, to “Ma chere Victorine”, about the disappearance of a maid who went to mass but has not returned, fearing she has come to some harm. In French. 4 pp. 8 x 5 inches, in clean condition, creases, traces of former mounting. Paris, 15 October, no year given. Giulia Grisi (1811–69), Italian operatic soprano. She toured the United States in 1854 with Giuseppe Mario, whom she married in 1856. Roles were written for her by Bellini, in I Puritani, and by Donizetti, in Don Pasquale.