Il Ratto dal Serraglio Signed Score

Score for this opera by Mozart, personal copy that belonged to Maria Callas. 

Score bound with Maria Callas´ initials on the spine (MMC, from Maria Meneghini Callas, her first husband´s name was Meneghini, 1949-1959). Score with Italian lyrics glued over English and German text.

Ink signature on title page, pencil markings in several parts of the score. For example, on page 2 Callas wrote "Costanza, p.41", her role and the page where she starts singing, on page 82 her ink writing is on top of her own pencil writing (end of the famous aria Marten aller Arten), there is more ink writing on page 85, on page 86 Callas writes p.106, here Costanza´s line continues. See most of the markings/annotations in the scans.

Blue cloth binding with MMC on the spine, a score by Novello and Co., London, 166 pages plus covers, 7.5 x 10.1 inches, in excellent condition.

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