OPERA SINGERS - LUCIEN MURATORE  

Of Piedmontese ancestry, Lucien Muratore was born in 1876 in Marseille where he began a career as an actor at a very young age. After a stint at the Paris Conservatory, he who thought he was a baritone discovered himself as a tenor. In 1905, he performed at the Paris Opera. He was quickly given the main tenor roles, notably in Carmen, Paillasse and Tosca. He also created, among others, the role of Bacchus in Bacchus triumphant by Camille Erlanger in Bordeaux in 1909 and that of Hercules in Déjanire by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1911 at the Monte-Carlo Opera. Muratore's fame would take on a more international dimension when he became the husband of "the most beautiful woman in the world", the Italian soprano Lina Cavalieri. He devoted his last years to teaching singing.

• Design and line-engraving: Pierre ALBUISSON
• Printing process: 5 colours steel-engraving 
• Size of the stamp: 40,85 x 52 mm vertical
• Quantity of issue: 36 000 stamps
• Sheet of 6 stamps with illuminations