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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (born "Errico Caruso";
Caruso remains famous despite his predating the publicity machine that would aid later stars of opera, ["I was able to do it with television and radio and media and all kinds of assists. The popularity that Caruso enjoyed without any of this technological assistance is astonishing."
Life
During his singing career, Enrico Caruso made more than 260 recordings over an 18-year period and earned millions of dollars from the sale of the resulting
While Caruso sang at many of the world's great opera houses, including
Caruso was baptized in the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo on
In 1903, with the help of his agent, the banker
In April 1906, Caruso and members of the Metropolitan Opera Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Tivoli Opera House. The night after Caruso's performance in "Carmen," the tenor was awakened in the early morning in his Palace Hotel suite by a strong jolt. San Francisco had been hit by a major earthquake, which led to a series of fires that eventually destroyed most of the city. The Metropolitan lost all of the sets and costumes it had brought. Clutching an autographed photo of President
On
On
In 1917, he was elected as an honorary member of
In 1918 Caruso married Dorothy Park Benjamin, who was then aged 25, the daughter of an old-established New York family. They had one daughter, Gloria. Dorothy published two books about Caruso, one in 1928, the other in 1945, which includes many of his letters to her.
In September 1920, Caruso recorded several discs in Victor's Trinity Church studio, including sacred music by Rossini; these recordings were his very last. On December 11, 1920, during the performance of "
Caruso died in 1921 in Naples, at age 48. The cause of death was likely
Honors
Caruso was portrayed by
In 1987, Caruso was posthumously awarded the
On February 27, 1987, the
Other
*Caruso was the third of seven children born to the same parents and one of only three to survive infancy. The myth of 17 or 18 dead children promulgated by biographers such as
*Caruso's birthplace in Naples, Via San Giovanella agli Ottocalli 7, still stands next to the church where he was baptized. His remains were interred in a mausoleum at the cemetery of Santa Maria del Pianto.
*During a performance in Naples, early in his career, Caruso was booed by the audience because he ignored the custom of hiring a
*Caruso performed in "Carmen" in
*At a performance of Puccini's "
*Caruso's voice extended to the
*While in
*Since his death, numerous compilation albums of his work have been created.
*Enrico Caruso was said to be able to shatter a crystal goblet by singing a note of just the right frequency at full voice. (Which as Dorothy Caruso said was pure nonsense).
Repertoire
* "
* "Faust" - Caserta,
* "
* Camoens (Musoni)- Caserta, May 1895;
* "
* "
* "
* "La Gioconda" - Cairo,
* "Manon Lescaut" - Cairo,
* "
* Malia - Trapani,
* "
* Marriedda - Napoli,
* "
* "La Favorita" - Salerno,
* A San Francisco - Salerno,
* "
* Un Dramma in vendemmia - Napoli,
* Celeste - Napoli,
* Il Profeta Velato - Salerno,
* "
* "La Navarrese" - Milano,
* Il Voto - Milano,
* "L'Arlesiana" - Milano,
* "
* "La bohème" (Leoncavallo) - Genova,
* "
* Hedda - Milano,
* "
* Sapho - Trento, 3? June 1898;
* "Fedora" - Milano,
* "Iris" - Buenos Aires,
* "
* Yupanki - Buenos Aires,
* "
* "
* "
* "
* "
* Le Maschere - Milano,
* "
* "Lohengrin" - Buenos Aires,
* Germania - Milano,
* "
* "
* "Lucrezia Borgia" - Lisboa,
* "
* "Martha" - New York,
* "
* "
* "L'Africana" - New York,
* "
* "
* "Armide" - New York,
* "
* Julien - New York,
* "
* "
* "Le Prophète" - New York,
* "
* "
* "
At the time of his death, the tenor was preparing the title role in Verdi's "
Caruso also had a repertoire of some 521 songs, ranging from classical to traditional Italian folk songs and popular songs of the day. The most often purchased song by Caruso at
Recordings
Caruso was one of the first star vocalists to make numerous recordings. He and the disc
His first recordings, made in 1902, were for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company. He began recording exclusively for the
RCA, which purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929, later took some of the old discs and over-dubbed them with a modern orchestra. Several previously unreleased Caruso discs continued to appear as late as 1973. In 1950, RCA reissued some of the fuller-sounding recordings on vinyl 78 rpm discs. Then, as LPs became popular, many of the recordings were electronically enhanced for release on LP. Some of these recordings,
Researchers at the University of Utah utilized the first digital reprocessing techniques to reissue most of Caruso's Victor recordings, beginning in 1976. Complete sets of all of Caruso's recordings have been issued on Compact Disc by RCA, Pearl and, most recently, by Naxos, each company using different mastering techniques. RCA has also recently issued three CD albums of Caruso material with newly recorded orchestral accompaniments.
For more information about Caruso's recordings, see
Bibliography
* Caruso, Dorothy, "Enrico Caruso - His Life and Death" with discography by Jack Caidin (Simon and Schuster, New York 1945).
* Caruso, Enrico Jr., and Farkas "Enrico Caruso My father and my family", w. Discography by William Moran and Chronology by Tom Kaufman (Amadeus, 1990).
* Gargano, Pietro "Una vita una leggenda" (Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori, 1997).
* Gargano, Pietro and Cesarini, Gianni "Caruso, Vita e arte di un grande cantante" (Longanesi, 1990).
* Jackson, S. "Caruso", First edition, (Stein and Day, New York 1972).
* Key P. V. R. and Zirato B., "Enrico Caruso. A Biography" (Little, Brown, and Co, Boston 1922).
* Scott, Michael "The Great Caruso" with Chronology by Tom Kaufman (London and New York, 1988).
* Vaccaro, Riccardo "Caruso" (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1995).
* Wagenmann J. H. , "Enrico Caruso und das Problem der Stimmbildung", (Altenburg, 1911).
* Il Progresso italo americano, "Il banchiere [ [http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~psimonel/nonno.html New Page 1 ] at bluehawk.monmouth.edu] che portò Caruso [http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~psimonel/nonno3.jpg] negli USA [http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~psimonel/nonno4jpg.jpg] ", sezione B - supplemento illustrato della domenica, New York, 27 luglio 1986.
Media
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title=O soave fanciulla
description="O soave fanciulla" from
title=No Pagliaccio non son|description=Recording of 'No Pagliaccio non son' from Pagliacci|format=Oggmulti-listen item
filename=Enrico Caruso - Geraldine Farrar - Jules Massenet - Manon - On L'appelle Manon.ogg
title=Manon! avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon
description=1912 recording of Enrico Caruso and
filename=Jules Massenet, Enrico Caruso, O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere.ogg
title=O souverain, O juge, O père!
description=1916 recording of Rodrigue's Act III aria in
[http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/Enrico%20Caruso%20-%20Over%20There.mp3 "Over There"] A recording of the popular American World War I song.
Footnotes
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External links
* [http://www.archive.org/details/enricocarusobiog00keypuoft Pierre Van Rensselaer: Enrico Caruso; a biography (1922)]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/enricocarusohisl017681mbp Dorothy Caruso: Enrico Caruso His Life And Death (1945)]
* [http://www.fundacionjoseguillermocarrillo.com/sitio/musclacaruso.html International Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation]
* [http://www.francoisnouvion.net/noempathy/caruso.html Historical Tenors: Caruso]
* [http://www.henryrosner.org/caruso/ The Enrico Caruso Page]
* [http://www.grandi-tenori.com/tenors/caruso.php Grandi-Tenori: Caruso]
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* [http://www.archive.org/details/Caruso_part1 Collected Works of Caruso Part 1] (Internet Archive)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Caruso_part2 Collected Works of Caruso Part 2] (Internet Archive)
* [http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm MetOpera database]
* [http://www.sonybmgmasterworks.com/artists/enricocaruso/ Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks]
*" [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20069 Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing] ", 1909, by Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini, from
* [http://www.lexolino.de/c,musik_klassische-musik_oper_operns%E4nger,caruso-enrico Further informations about Caruso, Enrico and his music]
* [http://www.hayne.net/dimichele/novels.html "Tenor of Love"]
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Источник: Enrico Caruso
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