Gomes, Carlos - Biscuit Bust [FILM] Maria Callas at Covent Garden

Maria Callas at Covent Garden for a performance of Medea with the diva on the title role

shown as the Duke in Rigoletto at Teatro La Scala

director of La Monnaie

inscribed and dated by her in 1893

Brazilian-born German singer (1929-2004)

Gomes, Carlos - Biscuit Bust [FILM] Maria Callas at Covent GardenBrazilian composer (1836 1896) who was the only successful non European opera composer; contemporary to Verdi and Puccini, and the first composer of non European lineage to be accepted into the Classic tradition of music. Large biscuit bust of the composer on clay base, signed on the back by Raul Ditet (or similar). Size is 11. 5 x 15. 75 x 9 inches, some yellow stains, in overall very good condition.