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Offline melba_schmelba

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Re: Opera Singer ?
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 25 August 19 13:56 BST (UK) »
Quote from: IgorStrav on Sunday 25 August 19 13:33 BST (UK)
And Caruso died aged 48 in 1921, about 8 years before OP believes this image was created.

And at 48 he didn’t look like this handsome youth.
I am thinking it may have just been an image that captured her imagination, that appeared in a magazine or journal, something like National Geographic perhaps.

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Re: Opera Singer ?
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 25 August 19 14:16 BST (UK) »
This is the most flattering one I can find of a (youthful) Caruso.


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Re: Opera Singer ?
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 25 August 19 18:00 BST (UK) »
It simply looks like a romantic fantasy picture to me. Not very distinctive except for the costume.
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Re: Opera Singer ?
« Reply #21 on: Monday 26 August 19 03:56 BST (UK) »
Thankyou all, I think I far prefer my fellow sitting on the wall - in fact I have gone right off Caruso.

Maybe I was never meant to give him a name!

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Re: Opera Singer ?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 26 August 19 08:20 BST (UK) »
Attila the Hun??     

Just throwing something into the ring for consideration.  He does at least have a beard ad moustache in pictures of him - hot quite as extreme as those in your painting, but . . . . .  ;D ;D

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