Cavalleria Rusticana SICILIANA (announced) 1903

[ALDabbagh1988]

Beyond Wonderful

[sjssjc]

incredible voice...to think this was recorded when? 100+ years ago makes you think of what life was like then

[poligrapher]

wonderful

[churunmerun]

sencillamente REGIO.a jewerly .una joya

[bodiloto]

La perfezzione Enrico Caruso Sublime Inegualiabile***************in­finite Grazie !

[marctenor]

YES!

[stevevandien]

Wonderful to have these recordings of the young Caruso. The voice is perfectly balanced between dramatic and lyric; a LARGE lyrico-spinto with concurrent dramatic potential. Over the years, his voice darkened, grew larger and thereby became a true dramatic tenor --

[65attila]

Amazing - if he sounded better than any other tenor in a 1903 recording what did he sound like on stage?

Thanks for posting-John

[RiversideTenor]

O thank you immensely, please is this "O Lola, bianca come fior di spino"?

[youchowchow]

Genio!!! Maravilloso.

[sigft25]

Excellent. It's always good to hear the voice of this legendary GIANT

I found the piano sound evocative too

[njmezzo]

Thank you for this fantastic piece of vocal history. No one ever has nor ever will surpass the great Caruso.

[Decebal88]

Beautiful :)

[elgrancaruso3]

I have films Gigli, Caruso, Mario Lanza, Joseph Schmidt, Jonh mc Cormack, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Mac donald.

Deanna Durbin, katryn Grayson, Alfredo Kraus, Maria del monaco, music audio and video of the greatest voices in the history of music, leaving interested write to me

[nextandykaufman]

mary, no! why did you have to die?  and sleep with your cousin?

[operabitch77]

i believe this is a half step ower. he recorded this aria twice this fine day, oncein the original and in the lower key. why? no one knows. but i like the voice in either key. he still is the greatest opera singer ever to grace the stage.

[AuthenticFeirce]

Besides Rosa POnselle.

[RiversideTenor]

Perhaps he was not sure which would sound better recorded. So he did one key as written, and then the other what he thought sounded better for his voice.

[Melot50]

I am out of words, he is unsurpassable. He is definately the best Italian singing tenor, I have ever heard.

[amberola1b]

having the lyrics presented below while he is singing them helps to understand the Italian pronunciation. And the recording sounds beautiful

[jamesandgrainne]

McCormick was also the voice said by Caruso himself.

[balletamie]

Sure was!

[jurek46pink]

"Rycerskość wieśniacza" - name of the opera in my country language.

[jurek46pink]

Despite of all poor means of technique of the time - this IS the voice !

[balletamie]

Yes, I'm making this Caruso series with lyrics because is a good star point for everyone. If at least one young you tuber gets to like him, that values the hours gone by making them.

[balletamie]

I wanted to say: start point

[wiseroldfart]

@nextandykaufman: I'm amazed the current crap gets any playing time at all. I grew up with Elvis, the Stones, and the Beatles. The Beatles really knocked me out with so many great songs in a short period of time. Even some of the soul music appealed to me. James Brown was Mr Cool.

If junk will make money, they'll sell it. I guess kids just don't know any better these days.

I don't expect people your age to like Opera and Classical, but you'd think they'd ignore this junk and discover oldies.