Italian Post Office Entertainment Celebrities

More Italian stamps! This time a brand new souvenir sheet issued on 18 October 2007 with a print run of 2 million. I picked this up at the Poste Italiane stand at the Rome Film Festival.

The set was designed by R Fantini and depicts three anniversaries of celebrated entertainment figures on three separate 60 Euro cent stamps: Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli, who was born in Recanati in Le Marche - also the birthplace of poet Leopardi - and who died fifty years ago on 30 November, 1957; Maria Callas, possibly the world's most famous opera singer ever, who died thirty years ago on 16 September, 1977; and Italian actor Amedeo Nazzari, in this the centenary year of his birth on 10 September, 1907.

Italian Souvenir Sheet - Callas-Gigli-Nazzari
BULGARIA MNH 1594 5 COMPETITION YOUNG OPERA SINGERS BULGARIA MNH 1594 5 COMPETITION YOUNG OPERA SINGERS
Paypal US $1.50 4h 3m
POSTAL COM SOCIETY OPERA SINGERS FIRST DAY COVERS POSTAL COM SOCIETY OPERA SINGERS FIRST DAY COVERS
Paypal US $4.95 12h 27m
3154 57 FD Program 32c Opera Singers Stamp 3154 57 FD Program 32c Opera Singers Stamp
Paypal US $20.00 1d 6h 51m
3154 57 32 cent Opera Singers 3154 57 32 cent Opera Singers
Paypal 1 Bid US $.99 1d 9h 50m
US 3154 7 OPERA SINGERS MINT NH SHEET US 3154 7 OPERA SINGERS MINT NH SHEET
Paypal 0 Bid US $6.40 1d 10h 7m
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