* " Brindisi " from La traviata, by Enrico Caruso & Alma Gluck

* Trojano, L., Crisci, C., Lanzillo, B., Elefante, R., & Caruso, G. ( 1993 ).

A recording of part of the opera's last act duet " No, più nobile ", rejigged into a self-contained tenor aria, was made by Caruso as early as 1902 for the Gramophone & Typewriter Company in Milan and its affiliates, with Cilea at the piano.

Publicity shots for the Carmen revival at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in January 1915, with Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar.

During his career, Toscanini worked with such legendary artists as Enrico Caruso, Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, Jussi Björling, and Geraldine Farrar.

Singing under Monteux at the Met: clockwise from top l. Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer, Giovanni Martinelli and Enrico Caruso

At the Met ( as the Metropolitan Opera was and is often called ) Monteux conducted familiar French works such as Faust, Carmen and Samson and Delilah, with singers including Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer and Giovanni Martinelli.

1908: Brooklyn Academy of Music opens new home on Lafayette Ave ( Fort Greene ); gala features Met Opera ( Geraldine Farrar / Enrico Caruso in Gounod ’ s Faust )

The cornerstone was laid at 30 Lafayette Avenue in 1906 and a series of opening events were held in the fall of 1908 culminating with a grand gala evening featuring Geraldine Farrar and Enrico Caruso in a Metropolitan Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust.

File: Farrar Caruso in Julien. jpg | Geraldine Farrar and Enrico Caruso in Julien.

The American author Barbara Paul has written several murder mystery novels based on Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, and the Metropolitan Opera.

Caruso is centre in the upper row, Farrar top left and bottom right.

Farrar was close friends with the star tenor Enrico Caruso and there has been speculation that they too had a love affair, but no substantial evidence of this has surfaced.

It is said that Caruso coined her motto: Farrar fara (" Farrar will do it ").

* August 2 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor ( born 1873 )

* February 25 – Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor ( d. 1921 )

Accordingly, when Enrico Caruso ( 1873 – 1921 ) — the most emulated Mediterranean tenor of the 20th century — made his acclaimed New York Metropolitan Opera debut in November 1903, one of the specific vocal attributes for which he was praised by music reviewers was the absence of a disruptive vibrato from his singing.

The scholarly critic William James Henderson wrote in The Sun newspaper, for example, that Caruso " has a pure tenor voice and is without the typical Italian bleat ".

Don Procopio was revived in Monte Carlo in 1906 ; An Italian version of Les pêcheurs de perles was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 13 November 1916, with Caruso in the leading tenor role ; it has since become a staple at many opera houses.

Enrico Caruso was studying Otello when he died unexpectedly in 1921, thus thwarting the New York Metropolitan Opera company's plans to stage the opera as a new vehicle for its star tenor.

Enrico Caruso included its two tenor arias in his first recording session.

Many Italian operatic singers and conductors were invited to perform for American audiences, including the great tenor Enrico Caruso.

The Great Auditorium has over the years featured famed hymn writer Fanny Crosby, band leader John Philip Sousa, and tenor Enrico Caruso.

The following decade saw a revival of a number of traditions, including Ciccio Busacca's fusions of Sicilian folk styles, central Italy's jazzy modern folk, pioneered by Canzoniere del Lazio, the re-appearance of the lira through the work of Re Niliu, the popularization of diverse genres of northern Italian music and some of the work of world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso, who revitalized Naples ' canzone napoletana tradition.

* February 27 — Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor ( d. 1921 )

Gigli rose to true international prominence after the death of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso in 1921.

The administration of Heinrich Conried in 1903 – 1908 was distinguished especially by the arrival of the Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso, the most celebrated singer who ever appeared at the old Metropolitan.

The work is in one act and premièred in 1914 in a double bill with Enrico Caruso in the leading tenor role in Pagliacci.

Fedora ( 1898 ), based on Victorien Sardou's play, featured a rising young tenor named Enrico Caruso ; it was also a success, and is still performed today.

The tenor Enrico Caruso received a Black Hand letter, on which a black hand and dagger were drawn, demanding $ 2, 000.

* January 12 – 13-Birth of public radio broadcasting: Lee De Forest conducts an experimental broadcast of part of a live performance of Tosca and, the next day, a performance with the participation of the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso from the stage of Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

He then pursued learning the tenor repertoire by imitating the style and vocal effects of the recordings of great tenors like Enrico Caruso, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Aureliano Pertile, and Beniamino Gigli.

Galli-Curci and Caruso also acted as godparents for the son of the Sicilian tenor Giulio Crimi.

He admired Caruso's ability, predicting as far back as 1898 that Caruso would go on to become the number-one Italian tenor of the 20th century.

In 1984, Dawson was chosen by the Guinness Book of Recorded Sound as one of the top 10 singers on disc of all time, listed alongside such luminaries as Elvis Presley and the great operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.

In 1902, he recorded music sung by the tenor Enrico Caruso for Victor, and the recordings became a sensation.

One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.

Ettore Ximenes with a sculpture model of opera singer Enrico Caruso.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

With the rise of recording technology, singers such as Enrico Caruso became known to audiences beyond the circle of opera fans.

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

In 1907, a Victor Records recording of Enrico Caruso singing Ruggero Leoncavallo's " Vesti la giubba " becomes the first to sell a million copies.

* Enrico Caruso

* Monaco: 1 February 1902, Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Enrico Caruso as Rodolfo, Alexis Boyer as Marcello, and Léon Jehin conducting.

Its most famous aria " Vesti la giubba " (" Put on the costume " or, in the better-known older translation, " On with the motley ") was recorded by Enrico Caruso and laid claim to being the world's first record to sell a million copies ( although this is probably a total of Caruso's various versions of it made in 1902, 1904 and 1907 ).

Among the cast was the young Enrico Caruso, who performed with great success the Lamento di Federico: È la solita storia del pastore, the romance which was to keep alive the memory of the opera even to the present day.

Again at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, in 1902 ( 6 November ) and again with Enrico Caruso, the composer won an enthusiastic reception for Adriana Lecouvreur, a 4-act opera with a libretto by Arturo Colautti, set in 18th century Paris and based upon a play by Eugène Scribe.

A photomontage print showed Valentino arriving in Heaven and being greeted by Enrico Caruso.

In the Golden Hamster Saga books, there are two guinea pigs named Enrico and Caruso who are modern-day thespians ( named after Enrico Caruso ) who serve as secondary characters, and often irritate the main character, Freddy Auratus who strongly dislikes their acting antics.

( Enrico Caruso is a prime example of this kind of vocal development.

Some dramatic tenors have a rich and dark tonal colour to their voice ( such as the mature Enrico Caruso ) while others ( like Francesco Tamagno ) possess a bright, steely timbre.

* Enrico Caruso