Excerpt from La Gioconda: An Opera in Four Acts Series of costume and other portraits of the grand opera singers best known to American opera-goers of to-day. To these pic tures are added authentic biographic sketches of some of the most famous, the data for them being furnished by the singers themselves. The new edition pictures not only the forces of the Metropolitan Opera House, but the chief singers of the new Hammerstein Com pany, the Henry W. Savage Company, and the new San Carlo Opera Company, making it beyond question the most complete as well as the most artistic pictorial souvenir of the opera published. The book of 100 pages contains 153 illustrations, of which number 140 are por traits, 28 of them full page in size. Printed on heavy coated paper and handsomely bound in cloth. Size of page, 9 inches by 12. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.