Enrico Caruso Biography
Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor. He was born on 25 February 1873 in the Via San Giovannello agli Ottocalli and died on 2 August 1921. His parents originally came from Piedimonte d’Alife in the Province of Benevento or Matese, in the Province of Caserta in Campania, Southern Italy. He was the third of seven children and one of only three to survive infancy.
Enrico Caruso photo
He begun his professional stage debut at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples in the now-forgotten opera, at the age of 22 in 1895. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Caruso also made approximately 260 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920. All of these recordings, which span most of his stage career, remain available today on CDs and as downloads and digital streams.
Enrico Caruso Death
He died on 2 August 1921, at the hotel shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time at the age of 48. The Bastianellis attributed the likely cause of death to peritonitis arising from a burst subphrenic abscess. The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, opened the Royal Basilica of the Church of San Francesco di Paola for Caruso’s funeral. His embalmed body was preserved in a glass sarcophagus at Del Pianto Cemetery in Naples for mourners to view. In 1929, Dorothy Caruso had his remains sealed permanently in an ornate stone tomb.
Enrico Caruso Wife
He met Dorothy Park Benjamin in 1893, the daughter of a wealthy New York patent lawyer, and wed on 20 August 1918, in spite of the disapproval of Dorothy’s father. They had a daughter, Gloria Caruso in 1919.
Enrico Caruso Songs
- Sole Mio
- Saint Lucia
- Wear the jacket
- L’elisir D’amore: A furtive tear
- The woman is mobile
- Core ‘Ngrato (Catari)
- Tosca (1988 Remastered Version): And the stars shine
- Mattinata, ‘The white-robed aurora’
- Aïda: Celeste Aida
- Over There
- Tosca: Recondita harmony
- La Danza (Tarantella)
- My song”
- This or that
- I seem to hear again
- Fenesta ca lucive
- A Vucchella
- Shadow Mai Fu
- Manon Lescaut: Woman I never saw
- The African: O paradise
- Mamma Mia, That Vo ‘Sape’
- For You Alone
- La Boheme, Act I – That icy little hand
- Vaghissima Sembianza
- Cavalleria Rusticana: Cavalleria Rusticana: O Lola
- Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira
- Come on the Sea
- Niggles?
- My love
- La juive: “Rachel, quand du Seigneur”
- Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)
- My hand
- Sing Pe’Me
- Twigs
- appeared to me
- Germany Students heard
- Fedora: Love forbids you
- In Granada
- Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know
- Forbidden music
- A Dream
- A Ballo in Maschera: of ‘Tu Se Fedele
- La Partida
- Eternally
- A kiss again
- La Gioconda: Sky and sea
- Goodbye to Naples
- The fleur que tu m’avais jetee
- Petite Messe Solennelle: Domine Deus
- Summer Moon
- You do not love me anymore