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Mrs Caruso enumerated these facts partly to satisfy public curiosity and partly to dispel myths and rumours about her husband.

Caruso, Jr.'s biography devotes an entire section to medical opinions concerning the tenor's ailments and possible causes of his death.

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One of the strangest stories about him is that, though caught in the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and terrified like everyone else, he managed to calm down enough to start singing in the corridors of his hotel. Holding an autographed photo of President Theodore Roosevelt, Caruso ran from the hotel but was composed enough to walk to the St.

Francis Hotel for breakfast. Caruso embarked on his last series of La Scala performances in March 1902, creating the principal tenor part of Federico Loewe in Germania by Alberto Franchetti.

A month later, on 11 April, he was engaged by the British Gramophone Company to make his first group of recordings in a Milan hotel room for a fee of 100 pounds sterling.

18 January 1926. . She had never really been “his queen.”

I’ll have to take Mrs. Caruso’s word for it and chalk it up to the fact that the ex-queen of Naples—a famously generous woman—really had helped Enrico when he was starting out, or—maybe this is a stretch—that Caruso resented the “new” Naples after an unkind critical reception in December, 1901, made him decide to leave Italy.

dead. It appeared to be a severe episode of bronchitis. The only Caruso attractions in Naples I have found are a plaque on his house, a small bust in a nearby square (photo, top of page) and his tomb (photo, above).

5. Also see this postcard from Enrico Caruso. added Oct.

2014
6. Also this note about the upcoming permanent Caruso museum. added Feb 28 2023

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The suit was eventually dismissed.

Caruso was not exonerated, however, in what became known as the "Monkey House Case." On November 16, 1906, Caruso went to the Monkey House in the Central Park Zoo, one of his favorite retreats in his adopted hometown of New York City.

Now get back out there and play! Beginning in 1932, RCA Victor in the USA and EMI (HMV) in the UK, reissued several of the Caruso discs with the original accompaniment over-dubbed by a larger electrically recorded orchestra.^[38] Earlier experiments using this re-dubbing technique, carried out by Victor in 1927, had been considered unsatisfactory.

From 1903 until his death, his home was the Metropolitan Opera in New York, during which time he sang 622 leading roles.

The party checked into the Hotel Vesuvio where Caruso began screaming in pain and eventually, a doctor gave him morphine to help him sleep.

Caruso died the following morning at the hotel shortly after 9:00 a.m. Hey, Caruso, is that supposed to be vibrato? Worked as laborer, including jobs as mechanic and jute weaver, beginning c.

26. HarperCollins. New York.