Leoncavallo, Ruggero - Signed Photo 1918

Italian opera composer (1857-1919), well-known for his masterpiece opera Pagliacci and other works, including Zaza and his own La Boheme. 

Fantastic signed photograph, dated by him in Viareggio in August 1918, a year before his death, mounted on an original mat, a photo by G. Magrini, Viareggio, Italy. Composer signed on the mat, below his actual photo, which is 3.9 x 5.6 inches in size, while total mat size is 5.9 x 8.1 inches, in excellent condition.