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Matti Salminen b/w Photo with Autograph. The photo shows Salminen as Veit Pogner at the Deutschen Oper Berlin.
One signature is at the Photo, the second on the sheet on which the photo is pasted.
The photo is 4 x 5,8 inches the whole sheet is 11,8 x 8,2 inches. There is a small tear at the lower edge of the photo.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Matti Salminen is a Finnish bass, who has sung in all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival.
He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience of the Ring in history.
Salminen has a contract at the Zurich Opera, and he also frequently performs in his native Finland. Most of all he has been admired in such Wagner roles as Gurnemanz and Titurel (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Fasolt and Fafner (Das Rheingold / Siegfried), Hunding (Die Walkuere), and Hagen (Goetterdaemmerung). Other important roles are King Philip II (Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi), the Grand Inquisitor in the same work, Sarastro (Die Zauberfloete by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, and title roles of (Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky), The Horseman by Aulis Sallinen, and Rasputin by Einojuhani Rautavaara.
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