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Piero Visconti: Color-portrait-photo ( Studio Toepffer, Muenchen ). Hand-signed in 1951.
4,1 x 5,8 inches (10,4 x 14,8 cm), very fine condition.
Guenther Treptow (1907 - 1981) was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.
He made his stage debut in Berlin, as the Italian singer in Der Rosenkavalier, in 1936. He sang at the Vienna Volksoper in 1938, as Florestan in Fidelio. He appeared at the Sopot Festival in 1939, in the title role of Tannhäuser. He made his debut at the Munich State Opera in 1940, the Vienna State Opera in 1947, and the Bayreuth Festival in 1951.
On the international scene, he made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, also appearing in Leningrad and Moscow.