VERDI, GIUSEPPE. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("G.VERDI") TO M. PERAGALLO, WRITTEN IN FRENCH

informing him that the director of the Théâtre de la Gaité has asked him if he would be willing to permit Il trovatore to be staged, asking Peragallo’s advice as to whether or not this is a good idea ...Le directeur...vient de m’écrire qu’il désire fonder à son Theater l’opera populaire parisien, me demandant à cet effet d’inaugurer ces representations par une serie consacrée au Trouvère... 2 pages, 8vo, Genoa, 2 March 1879, some browning