PFAS24  This is a superb opportunity to secure this original undated but circa 40 years ago original 6" x 4" hand signed photo for Rene Kollo who has personally autographed the souvenir where his signature rests perfectly accompanying his portrait undedicated and bar small places this is in great condition.

Contributing to Kollo's success were his physical trimness and good looks, even in middle age, and his uncommon gifts as an actor, even after the voice had developed a widening vibrato and tonal rawness in the upper register. Though it was already evident before age 35, Kollo could minimize Wagnerian wear-and-tear by lightening his voice in frequent operetta appearances (as the Chinese prince in Das Land des Lchelns, Wiener Blut, Grfin Mariza, Csrdsfrstin, La belle Hlne, and of course Die Fledermaus); several of these are preserved on video.

In the final period, before retiring from the stage in June 2000, he was a member of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, although he began staging operas at Darmstadt in 1986 (Parsifal), and Ulm in 1991 (d'Albert's Tiefland). For one unsuccessful season (1996 - 1997) he was director of Berlin's Metropol Theater, which specialized in operettas but had deteriorated between 1961 and the reunification of East and West. Today he calls the island of Majorca home, but claims it bores him except for the sun. Like Giuseppe di Stefano earlier on, he continues to sing light music within the current restrictions of a voice put to hard use for 30 years in the Heldentenor wars.