Enrico Caruso Quotes


I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.


Citations

Caruso, Enrico, and Luisa Tetrazzini. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing. Metropolitan Company, 1909, p. 11.

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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso
  • Born: February 25, 1873
  • Died: August 2, 1921
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Operatic Tenor

Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made 247 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920, which made him an international popular entertainment star.