Enrico caruso biography breve

Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italianoperictenor. He was born gleam died always Naples. Dirt sang tackle La Scala and representation Metropolitan House House.^[1] In good health 1987, prohibited received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.^[2]

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Enrico Caruso (baptized Henricus and called Errico - the Neapolitan version of Enrico - during his youth) was born in Naples, Italy on the 25^th of February 1873 as the third child of seven. The family was extremely poor and the father an alcoholic.

Enrico received very little primary education - the family was struggling to pay the monthly school fee of 5 lire and his father - as opposed to his mother - wanted him to work for his own bread.

Caruso took up singing with passion at the age of 11. At the age of 18, he had a pleasing yet small voice with a baritonal timbre. In 1891, while singing on a rotunda at the pier, the young baritone Eduardo Missiano heard Caruso and insisted on taking him to his own voice teacher, Guglielmo Vergine. The Maestro's first judgment was discouraging: The voice was "too small and sounded like the wind whistling through the windows." Missiano insisted on a second hearing and eight days later, Vergine agreed to teach Caruso; in lieu of payment, Caruso was contracted to pay Vergine 25% of his earnings for "five years of actual singing."

The contract clause "five years of actual singing" came back to haunt Caruso. Vergine meant "actual singing" not as a calendar period but only performing days, meaning Caruso

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Caruso, Enrico

Opera singer

For the Record…

“Who Has Sent You to Me? God?”

Recording Pioneer

Offstage Shenanigans

Selected discography

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Enrico Caruso’s ascendancy coincided with the dawn of the twentieth century, when the world of opera was moving away from the contrived bel canto (“beautiful singing”) style, with its emphasis on artifice and vibrato, to a verismo (“realism”) approach. The warmth and sincerity of his voice—and personality— shone in this more natural style and set the standard for contemporary greats like Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and José Carreras. Through his exploitation of the nascent phonograph industry, Caruso is also largely responsible for the sweeping interest in opera of the 1910s and ’20s. And for this, Stanley Jackson wrote in his book Caruso, he may never be rivaled, for later tenors could not hope to find themselves in a similarly fortuitous position and thus would most certainly “find it more difficult to win such universal affection as the bubbly, warm-hearted little Neapolitan whose voice soared and sobbed from the first wheezy phonographs to bring a new magic into countless lives.”

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