Verdi, Giuseppe

describing a poor performance of a Sinfonia, possibly to one of his operas, expressing the opinion that it might be successful if better played, acknowledging her letter from London, and stating that he will pass in silence over the writer C[arcano?], author of "donne letterate",  ("...La sinfonia, secondo il solito, è ridotta piuttosto male e difficile, nonostante, si ben suonata, potrà passare...") 

1 page, 16mo, green-edged stationery, autograph address panel on integral leaf, no place or date; together with two telegrams to and from Eugenio Checchi in Rome: 1) about "Falstaff" in Rome, 2) from Verdi to Checchi thanking the members of the Rome orchestra, Genoa, [arrival stamp: Rome, 1 January 1897]  

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Clara Maffei (1814-1886) was one of Verdi's closest friends and a regular correspondent from the early 1840s until her death. She was legally separated from the poet Andrea Maffei, who worked with Verdi on the libretto of I masnadieri and Macbeth.