Help Our Book Projects: Teatro Colon, Patti & Met Opera August 15 2024

Tamino Autographs is working on 3 separate book projects, which will be published at different times

Dear Collectors:

Help our book projects by sharing with us any scans of material you may have. We do not need the originals - you will of course be acknowledged!

TEATRO COLON: A Visual History:

This will be a 2-volume publication, with the first being the history of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, told with many images, infographics and text combined, and the 2nd volume will have an updated chronology (last one was published in 1968!). There will be fully separate Spanish and English versions of volume 1.

Beautiful photo postcard with conductor Gino Marinuzzi and other musicians of the orchestra taken outside the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1910s.

We are looking for signed and unsigned photographs of artists, inscribed or not, mentioning the theater in them by the signer, or simply unsigned photos taken at the Teatro Colon. Playbills, programs and ticket stubs are also welcome. We expect to publish this set in early 2027.

ADELINA PATTI: A Visual Biography

Currently at an earlier stage of preparation than the book above mentioned, but following the same idea, design and plan.

We need your scans of photographs of this singer, programs, autograph letters with interesting content and more.

The book will be richly illustrated and will include a couple of CDs with world premiere recordings of pieces related to Patti's career, plus other very nice surprises.

Picture: Adelina Patti. The first Aida at Covent Garden in 1876.

There will also be a chronology, the most complete up to date, that will be published online for free, for everyone to see. We need dates of performances from any programs you may have, and cast.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: A Visual History

This is a project that will materialize in the long run, but will be an entirely different history of the Met compared to those currently in existence. Part of this book is already written, we are collecting material to illustrate it and you are very welcome to collaborate with rare memorabilia, photographs, props and customs, just ask us whatever you have that is interesting.

Your material in one of our books will be of course acknowledged, and may become more valuable after it is published in a successful, beautiful book that will certainly be popular among opera and music fans!.