Original 1939 advertising handbill announcing an additional recital by the celebrated Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

The handbill explains that, because many people were unable to obtain tickets for the afternoon concert, impresario Harold Holt arranged a second Gigli recital for:

Sunday, 7 May 1939 at 3 p.m.

This date is confirmed by the Royal Albert Hall archive, which records a handbill announcing “another Gigli date on 7 May 1939.”

An appealing piece of pre-war British musical and operatic ephemera connected with one of the twentieth century’s most famous tenors.