2-995-668 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Antonio Giuglini, the Great Singer - from a photograph by Herbert Watkins, 1860. '...his reputation having reached Mr. Lumley, the lessee of Her Majesty's Theatre [in London], that active and intelligent manager hastened across the Alps in order to secure an artist who promised to be a treasure. Giuglini accordingly appeared at the above theatre, and from that time to the present has enjoyed the unbounded favour of the English public...His powers, especially as an actor, are evidently in a state of development, and his recent performance of Raoul in the "Huguenots" is not only his last but his greatest effort'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.