Enrico Caruso Biography

• The legend of a voice
• The origins
• The debut
• The return in Naples and it’s dramatic departure
• The american triumph
• The premature death

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Enrico Caruso Biography

The legend of a voice [1/6]

It was not a coincidence if in 1905, the musical English critic Thomas Burke, reviewing the representation of “Bohème” at the Covent Garden in London, performed by Caruso as Rudolph, stated: “Caruso is not a singer,nor is he a voice, he is a miracle. There will not be another Caruso in two or three centuries. Maybe never again!”. Successively, in 1973, centenary year of the great tenor birth, the President of the Repubblic Giovanni Leone wrote: “Caruso was not only the greatest lyric voice of that period, who provoked enthusiasm and emotion all around the world, but he also became the symbol of the desperate desire of expressing the capability of intelligence, laboriousness, and artistic inspiration of the italian southern people”. In fact, these beautiful words remain as the synthesis of a vocal phenomenon that has not been repeated, and that will be difficult to have again in the future. More than eighty years after his death should have revived him, but it has not been so.

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