Signed Photograph Postcard to Otto Isakower

Photograph postcard signed by the celebrated Austrian actor and operetta tenor.  Addressed and postmarked on the verso to Otto Isakower, the Viennese psychoanalyst who later emigrated to New York.  Very slight spotting and one crease at the corner, mounting remnants on the verso; otherwise in very fine condition.  8.6 x 13.6 cm.
Girardi's staple stage role was the comic. He worked in the tradition of Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy, and he made a significant contribution to the popular Vienna operetta. Girardi created the roles of Blasoni in Johann Strauss's Cagliostro in Wien (1875), Andredl in Karl Millöcker's Das verwunschene Schloss (1878), Jan Janicki in Millöcker's Der Bettelstudent (1882), Benozzo in Millöcker's Gasparone (1884), Kálmán Zsupán in Strauss's The Gypsy Baron (1885), Adam in Carl Zeller's Der Vogelhändler (1891), title role in Edmund Eysler's Bruder Straubinger (1903). He contributed greatly to the Golden Age of Vienna operetta. (12849)

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