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| Caruso |
Caruso was an Italian tenor.
He is considered the standard for excellence, thanks to the suggestion of the stamp and the unmistakable charm of the vocal instrument. Caruso's life was very impressive, straight out of a novel was born near Naples in 1873 from a poor family of 20 brothers, went to work early, but the mother still tried to do this study and it is there that he realized his passion for singing, for'opera '.
His debut had him at 21, but it was the theater of Naples, who had a failure and decided not to sing more in his city.
In 1902, impressed the first gramophone records and was the first singer in the world to make records, sold well over 1 million copies: it was a worldwide success that often the record companies do not remember...
Caruso in Italy is synonymous with the great singer, certainly for the extraordinary success that earned him the disks, unfortunately we can not recordings, if not in part, to help them experience the power and elegance of the voice of this singer who has been in the history of world music.
Here are some great successes of Caruso Enrico:
Caruso repertoire:
- L'amico Francesco (Morelli) – Teatro Nuovo, Napoli, March 15, 1895 (debut)
- Faust – Caserta, March 28, 1895
- Cavalleria rusticana – Caserta, April 1895
- Camoens (Musoni) – Caserta, May 1895
- Rigoletto – Napoli, July 21, 1895
- La traviata – Napoli, August 25, 1895
- Lucia di Lammermoor – Cairo, October 30, 1895
- La Gioconda – Cairo, November 9, 1895
- Manon Lescaut – Cairo, November 15, 1895
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Napoli, December 7, 1895
- Malia (Francesco Paolo Frontini) – Trapani, March 21, 1896
- La sonnambula – Trapani, March 24, 1896
- Marriedda (Bucceri) – Napoli, June 23, 1896
- I puritani – Salerno, September 10, 1896
- La Favorita – Salerno, November 22, 1896
- A San Francisco (Sebastiani) – Salerno, November 23, 1896
- Carmen – Salerno, December 6, 1896
- Un Dramma in vendemmia (Fornari) – Napoli, February 1, 1897
- Celeste (Marengo) – Napoli, March 6, 1897
- Il Profeta Velato (Napolitano) – Salerno, April 8, 1897
- La bohème – Livorno, August 14, 1897
- La Navarrese – Milano, November 3, 1897
- Il Voto (Giordano) – Milano, November 10, 1897
- L'arlesiana – Milano, November 27, 1897
- Pagliacci – Milano, December 31, 1897
- La bohème (Leoncavallo) – Genova, January 20, 1898
- The Pearl Fishers – Genova, February 3, 1898
- Hedda (Leborne) – Milano, April 2, 1898
- Mefistofele – Fiume, March 4, 1898
- Sapho (Massenet) – Trento, June 3(?), 1898
- Fedora – Milano, November 17, 1898
- Iris – Buenos Aires, June 22, 1899
- La regina di Saba (Goldmark) – Buenos Aires, July 4, 1899
- Yupanki (Berutti)– Buenos Aires, July 25, 1899
- Aida – St. Petersburg, January 3, 1900
- Un ballo in maschera – St. Petersburg, January 11, 1900
- Maria di Rohan – St. Petersburg, March 2, 1900
- Manon – Buenos Aires, July 28, 1900
- Tosca – Treviso, October 23, 1900
- Le maschere (Mascagni) – Milano, January 17, 1901
- L'elisir d'amore – Milano, February 17, 1901
- Caruso's sketch of himself as Don José in Carmen, 1904
- Lohengrin – Buenos Aires, July 7, 1901
- Germania – Milano, March 11, 1902
- Don Giovanni – London, July 19, 1902
- Adriana Lecouvreur – Milano, November 6, 1902
- Lucrezia Borgia – Lisboa, March 10, 1903
- Les Huguenots – New York, February 3, 1905
- Martha – New York, February 9, 1906
- Madama Butterfly – London, May 26, 1906
- L'Africana – New York, January 11, 1907
- Andrea Chénier – London, July 20, 1907
- Il trovatore – New York, February 26, 1908
- Armide – New York, November 14, 1910
- La fanciulla del West – New York, December 10, 1910
- Julien – New York, December 26, 1914
- Samson et Dalila – New York, November 24, 1916
- Lodoletta – Buenos Aires, July 29, 1917
- Le prophète – New York, February 7, 1918
- L'amore dei tre re – New York, March 14, 1918
- La forza del destino – New York, November 15, 1918
- La Juive – New York, November 22, 1919.
