Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma


Direttore
Maria Ida Biggi


Segreteria
tel. +39 041 2710236
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail teatromelodramma@cini.it


Consultation of the archival material is possible only by prior request for an appointment, to be sent to the above addresses.
For consultation of the volumes belonging to the personal libraries (AMOM, EPOV, GPOL, LSQU, MAL, MILL, PSAM, ROL), the authorization request has to arrive at least three working days before the date of the consultation.
In any case, the request has to be justified and it must contain explicit reference to the research that is taking place and the institution / University to which you are working.

The archive of Virginia Ferni Germano (Turin, 16 December 1849 - 4 February 1934), acquired by the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma in 2016, contains the photographic collection that belonged to the musician and acclaimed performer of late nineteenth-century opera, the preferred singer of Alfredo Catalani. The collection includes more than 100 original photographs: a small series of stage photographs by Ferni Germano herself is accompanied by portraits of artists, singers and musicians from the period around the turn of the nineteenth century. Most of the photographs are accompanied by handwritten dedications to the singer from the subjects portrayed.

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