Incredible voice - I wish I could have heard him in person. I have a feeling Pavarotti is probably the closest the late 20th century has come to his voice. I don't know if there will ever be another of such caliber!
My great-uncle, who used to go to the Met with my grandmother before 1914, and by himself later, said to me many times that what you hear on Caruso's disk is a pale shadow of what the voice was like in person. Just a shadow, he used to say.; also that the physical presence of the voice was overwhelming.
@MacTsar54 Yikes! The Caruso recordings always give me the shivers (in a good way).....I'd probably be reduced to a quivering mass if I heard him live.
The greatest singer ever. Period. The greatest opera artist/actor there will ever be. His voice just make you get hit with human electricity and emotion. He understand the universal language of feelings and primal sounds.
@Ojedazweite2 Good question. Both men are without doubt incredible. For we who grew up listening to gramophones and 78's can still be moved by Caruso. The same can be said when I listen to Pavarotti (the being moved part) in and with all of our modern technology and recording ability.
Too bad this is all we have of Caruso's voice. Had he lived longer, I think we would've gotten a chance to see him in sound films, where we can hear his speaking voice. I wonder what it sounded like? I heard Gigli's speaking voice a few times. It sounded a little like his singing voice: soft and somewhat higher in pitch than Caruso's singing voice.
I would've loved to see Caruso in "Pagliacci". I can imagine myself sitting in the opera house, watching him play the tragic Canio, and nearly crying my eyes out.
I remember hearing the last part of this recording years ago on a CD-ROM. It was my first taste of Caruso's wonderful voice. Even then, I knew he was badass, and my interest in him grew over time. Now I am a huge fan and I own all of his surviving recordings. I also have a huge collection of some of my favorite recordings on an mp3 player and listen to them avidly.
@up2space Thank you. :) My love of great singers like Caruso truly was a gift from God. I like other singers, but Caruso is among my all-time favorites.
@NodDisciple1 With all due respect, my only intention is to correct, without ill intentions. Pagliacci is plural for Pagliaccio.....Just like Paparazzi is plural for Paparazzo. The aria was written by Ruggero Leoncavallo in the late 1800s...Caruso was the first 1 million-seller in history with various versions of this aria. "Vesti la giubba" is the play where it came from. The roll was played by many actors-tenors before Caruso, but he was the better known at his time.
he takes arias [most often dramatic[ that often are in a register that thins the best tenor voices out- and makes them sound as you said- still baritonal in weight yet still keeping the ease power and purity of his tenor.. Nobody sang Pagliacci or the Verdi roles with such abandon!!!
Just spits it out like it is a beginners exercise! This is not an easy aria to make sound as full and easy as the great man does here! Showcases his power- support- tone - production- and ample reserves that even the top tenors bowed to!![and still do today] great!!!!!
Some says about Pavarotti, but he didn't do well untill he met Joan Sutherland's husband as his vocal coach for breathing control and he said that he wished to sing as Jussi Bjoring. After all a singer like Caruso and an actor like Valentino for instance don't need someone's criticism because they were and still be as perfect as just being an icon. - 3TAMMUZ-
One old English woman who heard Caruso sang told me that he sang from his heart and everyone stopped to hear him singing although one didn't know such songs. There had been only two better tenors, perhaps, before Caruso: Rubini and Mario. And after him none like him ever.
I have read Rubini was famous for his 'sob" which many so called "voice purists and critics did not like. Mario I have read had a beautiful tone.These 2 are often mentioned in the true history of tenor singing along with Caruso! But as a sidenote- the enclycopedia you may quote from does intro Caruso's entry as " Many have regarded it as the most beautiful tenor voice the world has known" Mario and Rubini not mentioned often on youtube.. I see you have done your reading . Great!!!
2:222:56 I've never heard any dramatic tenor hit a high note that directly and clearly and with that much damn ping. I can only imagine what it must have been like live.
Ping is the word. Caruso had a habit of making pings more often than most.The attack with such power and clarity as you say Tthis why he was buried as the most beloved kings are buried . Reminds me of Babe Ruth. When Ruth left the game grown professional players would herd around Ruth at the ballpark just to be seen and photographed with him They were like school kids around Ruth I am sure Caruso had the same type of aura and presence.
@lpvcrcd What exactly do you mean, "making pings"? 'Ping' is naturally occurring if the voice is produced properly (appoggio breathing, low larynx, palatal engagement, relaxed muscles of the vocalis, etc).
ask a tennis player today if he would prefer playing with the wood racquets and strings of 30-100 years ago... same with the singers of today who simply would not want the disadvantages of a horn- no amplification- no 50 splices per aria- no mving in and away from a horn while singing. Yes you can do many things in a studio. Luciano as great as he was, would have been the first to tell you how grateful he was to be able to use modern technology!
scusami ,lasciando il fatto che l'ascolto musicale è una cosa sogettiva e la rispetto. Ma Pavarotti aveva una voce naturale con i suoi punti di forza e le sue lacune.Caruso era un mostro di tecnica,ascoltalo meglio e carpirai, con un buon orecchio, il segreto del bel canto. cordiali saluti Guido
31122051 :puo parlare fine secolo quello che vuole,viviamo nella democrazia,ma tutti i tenori hanno un sogno ,diventare come Caruso ! Hellas il RE dei tenori e uno e si chiama Enrico Caruso !!!!!!!! Con rispetto, nicola !
Lei sta scherzando ? Si rende conto che cosa scrive ? Se aveva scritto Fletta,Marconi,Paoli,Escalais cerchero di capirLA,ma.......insomma tutto questo sono parole,parole,parole............!
di quale ambito del canto parla quando non ha mai sentito dal vivo Caruso ? ho dei dischi a casa dove Caruso giovane canta do dopo do come bombe ! mio nonno era pazzo per Caruso e Fleta,ha ascoltato Fleta dal vivo durante 4 anni a Vienna, all` epoca aveva comprato piu di 60 dischi con loro interpretazioni !!! ma che cosa scrive ???? chi puo tenergli testa a Caruso ? nessuno !!! questi registrazioni esistono ascoltate prima di scrivere,per favore !parole,parole,parole.
eh insomma, anche io la pensavo come te però se pensi che la qualità delle registrazioni di caruso è pessima e che in pavarotti la "bellezza" della voce è immediatamente valutabile mentra la tecnica di caruso ci vuole un po' per capirla (ma quando la capisci....capisci che è mostruoso) allora il confronto ti mette piu in crisi.
Nessuna tecnica vocale potra' mai spiegare il fenomeno Caruso restera' per sempre il piu' grande tenore della storia nell'intero universo vocale.Sicuramente Pagliacci e l'opera in cui Enrico Caruso non ha limiti nel controllo dell'espressione filo drammatica in se;'e libera l'anima fino al punto da penetrare il cuore e i sentimenti di ogni singolo ascoltatore.R.P
It is very possible that if we could hear him today, people would be collapsing in the aisles. the recording of his time is so primitive and yet the drama is fully conveyed, the passion and blood of the role. My mother described him as a force of nature.
Maybe the most heartbreaking rendition of all time. The photo is very interesting. Never seen that one before. Can you tell where it comes from? Though his Vesti la giubba is a milestone in hte history of recording sound,I still find this recording from I Pagliacci superior. It is certainly on my top ten list of Caruso recordings. The transfer that Nimbus Records has published is truly great,and allows us really to experience the sheer power of this unearthly voice that will live forever.
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Excuse my lack of tact; I posted a comment in spanish previously, but I want to thank Twilightzonewar in english. Thanks for this, man! This touched my soul. The power, the color of that throat!
Great to his voice again, My dad, who has since died has most of his records, I was taken back 30yrs.I sat with my father and listened to Caruso's amazing voice and Id watch my him close to tears,captivated by the masters voice. Now my daughter 14yrs, listens to Andrea Bochelli,I don't want to compare him to Caruso, I just want to celebrate the fact she has many tastes in music and one of them being opera- my dad would have his records of Caruso out in an instant. Thanks for sharing this.
Steve Perry is good, and I agree that modern rock vocal's don't have such vocal quality, but it's just that they are different I suppose. Entirely different genres
Thanks twilightzonewar for posting the greatest Tenor of the last 2 centuries. ALSO, thanks for trying to update the sound. It was recorded in mono and it helped a lot. Caruso tends to get lost because of the recording devices in his time rather than his voice. He is still and will always be the bar that all Tenors strive to attain.
Please allow me to bring the highbrows down to my level, A rockers take on Caruso. Enrico rocks dude! It is simply amazing how that full rich voice shines though the archaic stone age recording equipment of his day, I can only imagine the power and soul that his 'live' performance must have been. Pavarotti and Domingo with all the millions of dollars of studio gear couldn't hold a candle to Enrico.
Your two cents might as well be two trillion! Being a metalhead extreme myself, he was the FIRST OPERA singer of any kind I heard and...HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE BAR that all Tenors (and even some rock voices) since 1900 will always try to reach. He only loses luster because of the recording devices of his time. Pre-mono and mono recordings get scratchy sounding in trying to improve it. Think I will get out my record player and my 78's and give them a twirl. ENRICO ROCKS, TOTALLY!
Of course there are great tenors with talent (incl. Caruso), but what makes someone unforgettable is the way and to what extent his listeners are affected in their hearts. There's only one tenor, Jussi Bjorling, that can move his listeners to choke-up merely by having them explain the tenor's qualities. The following quote from some music producer puts it best... continued
"the tear in his voice communicates instantly; it connotes tenderness, sweetness and sincerity. And the remarkable 'ping' of his easy upper register is thrilling- even heroic. He means business. His singing was as natural as speech there is such joy in his singing that it becomes and end in itself." cont...
"Many years ago I sat beside a very old woman at the Metropolitan Opera and she reminisced about singers long gone. She spoke kindly of Gigli, di Stefano, Tucker, martinelli, and her critical acumen was to be admired. But when I asked her about Bjorling, she could barely speak: 'Every note of his went straight to my heart,' she said through barely choked-back tears. 'God must have wanted to listen to him alone in heaven.'"
If all these singers were not 'great' in one sense or another
would we still be talking about them?
How about paying a little bit of attention to those who deserve to be recognised as the heirs to Caruso et al?
A favourite pupil of Mario Del Monaco: Oscar Mancino.
Another true artist with a very wide range.
Listen to The Voice of Naples and let him know what you think since most promoters today seem to concentrate on 'virtual', here today gone tomorrow, artists.
Price also had a dark ,mezzorial voice but she was a lyric soprano while Nilsson had a bright instrument was a Wagnerian soprano.Domingo's voice wasn't free and effortless .He sounds nasal and throaty.He didn't use dynamic shading apart from his bad falsseto he could'nt sing mezza voce not the best thing for a Puccini ,Donizetti,Mozart,Gounod,Massenet,Donizetti interpreter as he was.For example in soft passages of Ingemisco he resorts to a disjointed falsetto.
Price also had a dark ,mezzorial voice but she was a lyric soprano while Nilsson had a bright instrument was a Wagnerian soprano.Domingo's voice wasn't free and effortless .He sounds nasal and throaty.He didn't use dynamic shading apart from his bad falsseto he could'nt sing mezza voce not the best thing for a Puccini ,Donizetti,Mozart,Gounod,Massenet,Donizetti interpreter as he was.For example in soft passages of Ingemisco he resorts to a disjointed falsetto.
As you know Caruso started as a lyric tenor and sang Arturo and could hit a high D then he started to move to spinto-dramatic repertoire after special training .Moreover,Caruso was a huge dramatic tenor much heavier than Domingo..Having a dark voice doesn't mean you are a dramatic tenor.Bergonzi had a dark instrument but he was a full lyric with a voice much smaller than the very bright voice of Richard Tucker
I think Domingo was a real tenor although he had strained high notes.Domingo's voice is not as baritonal as del Monaco's or Corelli's one.I think he started as baritone by mistake just like Bergonzi and when he realised he was a tenor he didn't manage to switch perfectly to a tenor .Caruso had problems with his high notes but always had plenty of squillo up to high b and his singing is always effortless and very relaxed.Don't forget he was a heavy smoker and this may had affected his voice
Domingo the best?Very funny .Domingo has a very limited technique .He couldn't stand tenor tessitura without strain ,his voice is nasal, could't sing mezza voce he hasn't a very big voice ,he is monotonous without dynamic shading.Caruso was divine.Even with the very limited recording techniques he sounds like a God.Few singers can be compared to him among them Fleta,Tucker,early di Stefano, Gigli,Martinelli,Lauri-Volpi.Nicolai Gedda was also divine although he had a very different repertoire
Caruso è il più grande tenore!!!!! Non ci sono paragoni!! Tra quelli nominati è davvero la lista dei migliori cantanti , ma sopra atutti si innalza la meraviglia di tutti i tempi, la vetta, la più alta cima irraggiungibile. Soltanto la Maria Callas ha dato emozioni così belle e paragonabili a quelle che il grande Enrico Caruso ci ha donato. Grazie a questo miracolo di voce||||
Although I agree that Caruso was superior to Domingo, your berating of Domingo is quite unfair. If Domingo's technique is so limited, how has his voice lasted over 4 1/2 decades of professional singing? Domingo's voice is certainly not as loud as Caruso or Del Monaco's, but it is loud enough to be heard clearly over the booming orchestra in Otello, Parsifal, and Die Walkure. His singing is not without dynamic shading, and his many millions of fans would say it is not at all monotonous.
Besides, Domingo's problem has never (even now at 67 years of age) really been with the tenor tessitura, but rather with the highest notes of the tenor range, which if you'll recall (or research) also caused Caruso some difficulty. They both have more baritonal, less "true tenor" voices. Also, Domingo may have a more nasally voice but that's in style now (Florez, Vargas, Villazon, Bros...). On a different note, good to see someone who remembers the great Giovanni Martinelli.
My father used to say "Domingo couldn't carry Pavarotti's music" and Pavarotti was not born with the instrument Caruso had. Though Domingo can be considered a great artist he has sung roles at times that were out his confort zone and the voice becomes forced and really not pleasant to listen to. I remember hearing his rodolfo in boheme.Not an amazing
experience!! I actually wrote james levine about this and suggested he should cast tenors more suitable for a particular role.
"Placido Domingo the best"???????? HAHAHAHA, that is so funny I can't stand it. Do you have decent hearing? LISTEN TO CARUSO'S TIMBRE, THAN REVIEW YOUR STUPID COMMENT ABOUT "PLACIDO DOMINGO BEING THE BEST," u dumb shit.
**Enrico Caruso had a wonderful voice indeed, I just wish that the recordings would have been a little better.
Now...I just love the voice of L. Pavarotti...
He would be my all time favorite when it comes to "tenors". I was lucky enough to hear him live in Barbados and it was just wonderful...just wonderful!
Elvis, and Caruso are apples and oranges, Caruso was clearly the most talented Tenor to ever live, and Elvis was also extremely talented, and he was also the King of Rock'n'Roll.
Opera is not my favorite genre but I ve been in one performance of this play (Pagliacci) and this song is, GODDAMIT, so powerful so MTF amazing, it breaks my freacking heart.
I am not an connoseiur and surely I cannot aprecciate as much as you do the voice of Caruso (besides the natural admiration, common to everyone), but really this story and specially this part is brutal. Poor pagliacci, we the pagliacci!
Waht a powerful chest registry! It's almost as if a bariton were given a higher range. Pavarotti's voice is sharper. The timbre is higher than his though they can hit the same notes. Amazing!
You're right. I saw Martinelli give a lecture when I was about 10yo. He always said that Caruso was without comparison. actually, Caruso gave Martinelli one of the costumes he wore when singing just this aria. Martinelli said that he was very honoured but never had the courage to wear it himself.
Martinelli said "If You put the voices and characters of Pertile, Lauri Volpi, Gigli, Schipa and all the others together and make one voice out of all of them, this being would not be worth to kiss carusos shoes." (Sorry for my english ;-)) And he was right. Although these where all great singers (Gigli with restrictions), the only tenor comparable to him was Fernando De Lucia, no one else. And Puccini said to him, when he heard him the first time: "Who sent You to me? God?"
Yes. I've read this before and these were all beautiful SOUNDING Italian tenor voices Martinelli mentioned. Even the great Gigli[I see you are not completely sold on beniamino] would sing an aria and say "Yes..But For Caruso" Caruso held quite a large mantel.Seems a bit unfair to many a great tenor to have had to sing in the same era with him..Tucker,Peerce,Di Stefano,Corelli carried on as best they could.Are you familiar with Gianni Raimondi?I heard him live;very good with a lush tone!
Yes!!You are right!The power of caruso, the fullness of tone, the relative ease he sang the most demanding verdi arias Incomparable instrument. Pavarotti stylish lyrical and a nice italian sound A great singer but never born with caruso's voice... none have been.. as you mention Francesco Tamagno[the original otello] gigli[I consider the second greatest tenor] Jussi,Schipa.Some mention pertile,lauri volpi,tagliavini, peerce. Martinelli a true workhorse.Good list spats47
Do consider how primitive the recording equipment was in his time. We will never know his true Genius and must rely on the words of others. I do love his voice, but cannot judge him fairly against modern singers, i.e., recordings of his time.
I have to agree when people point to the poor quality of the recording - but some of those notes, the power of them, the way he holds them - it's quite astonishing. Someone has to be the greatest tenor. Maybe it's him.
Everyone from earlier singers before his generation, singers of his own time to Pavarotti and Domingo agreed that he was the greatest...and of-course he was! If he sounded this good recorded through an acoustic horn, how good did he REALLY sound!?
don't you know anything about Italians? They have been infamous for YEARS for dressing in expensive, gawdy clothes. The men are actually much worse than the women when it comes to clothing.
What a Voice!! The "Voice of the Century" they call him. Sharp dresser too. I'm half Italian and half Irish and Dutch, but I tell people I'm Italian. It just works better with the babes.
i've heard caruso had so much power and superb breath control and caruso good shatter a wine glass from singing and pavarotti admits that he is not as good as caruso
I think the closest to Caruso's aria was Mario Lanza's recorded for the movie For The First Time in 1958, just my opinion.
LanzaFan1948 1 week ago
Pavarotti is a pygmy compared to Caruso.
marcxopoco 1 month ago
In-fucking-credible.
Fanucci34 1 month ago
Incredible voice - I wish I could have heard him in person. I have a feeling Pavarotti is probably the closest the late 20th century has come to his voice. I don't know if there will ever be another of such caliber!
acoleen1 1 month ago
My great-uncle, who used to go to the Met with my grandmother before 1914, and by himself later, said to me many times that what you hear on Caruso's disk is a pale shadow of what the voice was like in person. Just a shadow, he used to say.; also that the physical presence of the voice was overwhelming.
MacTsar54 4 months ago 2
@MacTsar54 Yikes! The Caruso recordings always give me the shivers (in a good way).....I'd probably be reduced to a quivering mass if I heard him live.
whatthedormousesaid 4 days ago
The greatest singer ever. Period. The greatest opera artist/actor there will ever be. His voice just make you get hit with human electricity and emotion. He understand the universal language of feelings and primal sounds.
KaleidoscopeAct 4 months ago
Caruso or Pavarotti?
Ojedazweite2 5 months ago
@Ojedazweite2 Who do you prefer?
Ojedazweite2 5 months ago
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mattmichelotti 3 months ago
@Ojedazweite2 Good question. Both men are without doubt incredible. For we who grew up listening to gramophones and 78's can still be moved by Caruso. The same can be said when I listen to Pavarotti (the being moved part) in and with all of our modern technology and recording ability.
lucripet 3 months ago
one of those tenors who have an imperial voice with a large lovely tassiture.
puretrilla 6 months ago
Caruso, io non dimenticare!
AztecClover 6 months ago
Bravo!!
Micelli1947 11 months ago
justbeautiful. Wish I could find a copy of this oprea in a store near me
miketallica665 1 year ago
Too bad this is all we have of Caruso's voice. Had he lived longer, I think we would've gotten a chance to see him in sound films, where we can hear his speaking voice. I wonder what it sounded like? I heard Gigli's speaking voice a few times. It sounded a little like his singing voice: soft and somewhat higher in pitch than Caruso's singing voice.
31operafan 1 year ago
I would've loved to see Caruso in "Pagliacci". I can imagine myself sitting in the opera house, watching him play the tragic Canio, and nearly crying my eyes out.
31operafan 1 year ago 3
I remember hearing the last part of this recording years ago on a CD-ROM. It was my first taste of Caruso's wonderful voice. Even then, I knew he was badass, and my interest in him grew over time. Now I am a huge fan and I own all of his surviving recordings. I also have a huge collection of some of my favorite recordings on an mp3 player and listen to them avidly.
31operafan 1 year ago
@31operafan god bless you
up2space 1 year ago
@up2space Thank you. :) My love of great singers like Caruso truly was a gift from God. I like other singers, but Caruso is among my all-time favorites.
31operafan 1 year ago
Great recording. Caruso left a legacy that will live on up to the end of time.
31operafan 1 year ago
Delightful.
gaisar80 1 year ago
And to think they allow anything else to be on Youtube... :D
greenethump3 1 year ago
Holy crap. He must have been insane to see. The voice is sooo freakin huge
JCLAWS 1 year ago
Awesome! TY.
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TRANTORDJ 1 year ago
Isn't this guy the original Pagliacci? :?
NodDisciple1 1 year ago
@NodDisciple1 With all due respect, my only intention is to correct, without ill intentions. Pagliacci is plural for Pagliaccio.....Just like Paparazzi is plural for Paparazzo. The aria was written by Ruggero Leoncavallo in the late 1800s...Caruso was the first 1 million-seller in history with various versions of this aria. "Vesti la giubba" is the play where it came from. The roll was played by many actors-tenors before Caruso, but he was the better known at his time.
bvb7589 1 year ago
@bvb7589 Okie-Dokie.
NodDisciple1 1 year ago
Caruso is STILL the King!
docmalthus 1 year ago 3
Caruso's genius is its modern song, without trick nor extramusicaly's harshly. Thank you!
fajamaqui 1 year ago
I've never heard such clarity w/ pure power. Astonishing eye opener.
R0bbiam 1 year ago
Une voix exceptionnelle !!!!!!!!
Quel destin !
Quel talent !
70ZOUZOU 1 year ago 2
Another great discovery to add to my music collection thanks to youtube.
jaybird321 1 year ago
rendere alcuni video, per favore
jalyn2013 1 year ago
Muy buena definición de sonido, que bueno era Enrico Caruso
skinzion 1 year ago 3
Amazing that a man can sing tenor perfectly and sound like a barritone when he does so! Almost all tenors I've heard squeak by comparison.
nothingmemorable 2 years ago 2
he takes arias [most often dramatic[ that often are in a register that thins the best tenor voices out- and makes them sound as you said- still baritonal in weight yet still keeping the ease power and purity of his tenor.. Nobody sang Pagliacci or the Verdi roles with such abandon!!!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago
Thank you for posting clear tone of the record.
svetlankasilver 2 years ago 2
Its been about 100 years since this was recorded & although many wonderful voices have done this- no one comes close. Perhaps in another 100 years?
Lovelytenor1 2 years ago 4
Just spits it out like it is a beginners exercise! This is not an easy aria to make sound as full and easy as the great man does here! Showcases his power- support- tone - production- and ample reserves that even the top tenors bowed to!![and still do today] great!!!!!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago 3
Out of this world.
angelparsifal 2 years ago 2
Million stars for Greatest tenor of all time!!!
caruso81 2 years ago
i wrong, sorry
perroygatonegro 2 years ago
Some says about Pavarotti, but he didn't do well untill he met Joan Sutherland's husband as his vocal coach for breathing control and he said that he wished to sing as Jussi Bjoring. After all a singer like Caruso and an actor like Valentino for instance don't need someone's criticism because they were and still be as perfect as just being an icon. - 3TAMMUZ-
imagetriangle 2 years ago
One old English woman who heard Caruso sang told me that he sang from his heart and everyone stopped to hear him singing although one didn't know such songs. There had been only two better tenors, perhaps, before Caruso: Rubini and Mario. And after him none like him ever.
imagetriangle 2 years ago
I have read Rubini was famous for his 'sob" which many so called "voice purists and critics did not like. Mario I have read had a beautiful tone.These 2 are often mentioned in the true history of tenor singing along with Caruso! But as a sidenote- the enclycopedia you may quote from does intro Caruso's entry as " Many have regarded it as the most beautiful tenor voice the world has known" Mario and Rubini not mentioned often on youtube.. I see you have done your reading . Great!!!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago
Caruso the greatest voice of all time? We'll never know.
jimmmmie 2 years ago 2
2:22 2:56 I've never heard any dramatic tenor hit a high note that directly and clearly and with that much damn ping. I can only imagine what it must have been like live.
ydracomagusy 2 years ago 24
Ping is the word. Caruso had a habit of making pings more often than most.The attack with such power and clarity as you say Tthis why he was buried as the most beloved kings are buried . Reminds me of Babe Ruth. When Ruth left the game grown professional players would herd around Ruth at the ballpark just to be seen and photographed with him They were like school kids around Ruth I am sure Caruso had the same type of aura and presence.
lpvcrcd 2 years ago 5
@lpvcrcd What exactly do you mean, "making pings"? 'Ping' is naturally occurring if the voice is produced properly (appoggio breathing, low larynx, palatal engagement, relaxed muscles of the vocalis, etc).
IsingOpera 1 year ago
@ydracomagusy Well said! What an incredible experience it must have been to watch him sign in person!
lucripet 3 months ago 2
one of the greatest.
I go ahead and call him the greatest Dreamatic Tenor. Maybe Del Monaco can rivals him...dont know.
But, of course, he is not the 'greatest'. There are, at least, 5 groups of tenors.
Pavarroti, for me, is the greatest Lyric. kraus is teh greatest Ligeiro.
In spinto and helden I dont know if I have any favorites. Maybe Placido as a Spinto and Vladimir Galouzine as Helden (Heroic).
^^
listen them. They are wonderfull.
Gaigaia 2 years ago
he does not have the depth of Caruso.... Pavarroti sounds like an alto.. it is like taking the bass out of sourround sound!
raquelsutton 2 years ago
what you mean with depht? I too prefere Caruso, but I dont understood the 'depht' you meant.
And I like Pavarotti's singing on the 'vesti la giubba"...but, for "Pagliaccio non son" I like Caruso's.
Anyway, listen Vladimir. He is a very strange Heldentenor. Its interesntng
^^
Gaigaia 2 years ago
Galouzine?- ever hear of Melchior-greatest heldon tenor EVER- just listen!!
porsche4277 2 years ago
SIN DUDA, la voz mas perfecta del universo!!!!!!
NON PLUS ULTRA!!!!
Rigelcentauri58 2 years ago
I love Pavarotti, but I wish I could hear Caruso with the same recording technology. Likely would blow Pav away!
mesa1300 2 years ago
ask a tennis player today if he would prefer playing with the wood racquets and strings of 30-100 years ago... same with the singers of today who simply would not want the disadvantages of a horn- no amplification- no 50 splices per aria- no mving in and away from a horn while singing. Yes you can do many things in a studio. Luciano as great as he was, would have been the first to tell you how grateful he was to be able to use modern technology!
lpvcrcd 2 years ago 12
true!!!!!
caruso81 1 year ago
@lpvcrcd
No s*it.. did "Luciano" told you this in person?
brasco934 1 year ago
@brasco934 always silly aren't you ? We could never get you to take anything seriously-- Uncle John said the same about you
lpvcrcd 1 year ago
@lpvcrcd As a future modern singer, I refuse to use amplification in the future, opera wasn't meant to be amplified artificially.
seektheforce 1 year ago
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I just love that Al Capone-esque photo !
sgnmath1234 2 years ago
Io a caruso preferisco 100 volte pavarotti!
Drewes01 2 years ago
scusami ,lasciando il fatto che l'ascolto musicale è una cosa sogettiva e la rispetto. Ma Pavarotti aveva una voce naturale con i suoi punti di forza e le sue lacune.Caruso era un mostro di tecnica,ascoltalo meglio e carpirai, con un buon orecchio, il segreto del bel canto. cordiali saluti Guido
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31122051 2 years ago
31122051 :puo parlare fine secolo quello che vuole,viviamo nella democrazia,ma tutti i tenori hanno un sogno ,diventare come Caruso ! Hellas il RE dei tenori e uno e si chiama Enrico Caruso !!!!!!!! Con rispetto, nicola !
bodiloto 2 years ago
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31122051 2 years ago
Lei sta scherzando ? Si rende conto che cosa scrive ? Se aveva scritto Fletta,Marconi,Paoli,Escalais cerchero di capirLA,ma.......insomma tutto questo sono parole,parole,parole............!
bodiloto 2 years ago
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31122051 2 years ago
di quale ambito del canto parla quando non ha mai sentito dal vivo Caruso ? ho dei dischi a casa dove Caruso giovane canta do dopo do come bombe ! mio nonno era pazzo per Caruso e Fleta,ha ascoltato Fleta dal vivo durante 4 anni a Vienna, all` epoca aveva comprato piu di 60 dischi con loro interpretazioni !!! ma che cosa scrive ???? chi puo tenergli testa a Caruso ? nessuno !!! questi registrazioni esistono ascoltate prima di scrivere,per favore !parole,parole,parole.
bodiloto 2 years ago
eh insomma, anche io la pensavo come te però se pensi che la qualità delle registrazioni di caruso è pessima e che in pavarotti la "bellezza" della voce è immediatamente valutabile mentra la tecnica di caruso ci vuole un po' per capirla (ma quando la capisci....capisci che è mostruoso) allora il confronto ti mette piu in crisi.
zambrocca 2 years ago
Nessuna tecnica vocale potra' mai spiegare il fenomeno Caruso restera' per sempre il piu' grande tenore della storia nell'intero universo vocale.Sicuramente Pagliacci e l'opera in cui Enrico Caruso non ha limiti nel controllo dell'espressione filo drammatica in se;'e libera l'anima fino al punto da penetrare il cuore e i sentimenti di ogni singolo ascoltatore.R.P
leobellabeau3 2 years ago 2
Una delle più grandi voci drammatiche del secolo scorso, nei " Pagliacci " non ha assolutamente rivali.
31122051 2 years ago
IMPRESIONANTE!!!!
joselocanete 2 years ago
IL RE DEI RE!!!
bodiloto 2 years ago
no comment!!! his vocal school de l`U is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!
svjatazarov 2 years ago
This is Caruso's last recording of this aria (17. March 1907) - see my video response for the two other recordings.
It was the first ever record to sell more than one million copies. Unsurpassed IMO.
tomfroekjaer 2 years ago
You are wrong
This is "No! Pagliaccio, non son" and his only version was recorded on 28 December 1910.
Dyeite 2 years ago
Yes, you're right.
tomfroekjaer 2 years ago
¡Magnìfico!
HAIZEAnaiz 2 years ago
ke hermosura, el padre de los cantantes
cayo777 2 years ago 2
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Erwin Schrott is better than Caruso.
serenade00007 2 years ago
It is very possible that if we could hear him today, people would be collapsing in the aisles. the recording of his time is so primitive and yet the drama is fully conveyed, the passion and blood of the role. My mother described him as a force of nature.
herminestover 2 years ago 5
Did your mother hear him live?
LordMgls 2 years ago
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if i never remembered this bastards name, i would still hate oprea, but thanks to him and pavorotti..... i can dig it rip luciano et enrico ciaou
sharqi666 2 years ago
Why eat corned beef when you can have fillet mignon?
fcc61 2 years ago
Bravissimo come sempre ..Classico *****
operAndorra 2 years ago 2
Maybe the most heartbreaking rendition of all time. The photo is very interesting. Never seen that one before. Can you tell where it comes from? Though his Vesti la giubba is a milestone in hte history of recording sound,I still find this recording from I Pagliacci superior. It is certainly on my top ten list of Caruso recordings. The transfer that Nimbus Records has published is truly great,and allows us really to experience the sheer power of this unearthly voice that will live forever.
klokheten 2 years ago
Una voce inimitabile e una tecnica raffinata.Timbri come questo non se ne sono più sentiti.
sagitta56 3 years ago 4
certo... :))))
CrazYyEsco 2 years ago
I have the complete discography of Caruso, Gigli, del monaco, Corelli,alfredo kraus,placido domingo,films,documentaries biographical,interested write to me
alfredokraus53 3 years ago
the end is so funny.
OperaBaritoneJoe 3 years ago
Excuse my lack of tact; I posted a comment in spanish previously, but I want to thank Twilightzonewar in english. Thanks for this, man! This touched my soul. The power, the color of that throat!
purquiz 3 years ago
Great to his voice again, My dad, who has since died has most of his records, I was taken back 30yrs.I sat with my father and listened to Caruso's amazing voice and Id watch my him close to tears,captivated by the masters voice. Now my daughter 14yrs, listens to Andrea Bochelli,I don't want to compare him to Caruso, I just want to celebrate the fact she has many tastes in music and one of them being opera- my dad would have his records of Caruso out in an instant. Thanks for sharing this.
lynta59 3 years ago 3
Rry,
p.s., IMHO, Steve Perry, from Journey...The closest any modern rocker had been in shear vocal quality. But that's another thread, LOL!
hoggwild89 3 years ago
Steve Perry is good, and I agree that modern rock vocal's don't have such vocal quality, but it's just that they are different I suppose. Entirely different genres
Zando24 3 years ago
Thanks twilightzonewar for posting the greatest Tenor of the last 2 centuries. ALSO, thanks for trying to update the sound. It was recorded in mono and it helped a lot. Caruso tends to get lost because of the recording devices in his time rather than his voice. He is still and will always be the bar that all Tenors strive to attain.
RRydnew 3 years ago
Que voz poderosa, cuanto color tiene esa garganta! Maravilloso. Nunca hubo otro igual.
purquiz 3 years ago
I pagliaggi (Der Bajazzo) ist so ziemlich meine Lieblingsoper und Caruso mein klarer Lieblings-Canio. thx for posting it!
blaugrun67 3 years ago
Realmente la voz de Enrico Caruso era extraordinaria.
FRANCOVERDADERO 3 years ago
Please allow me to bring the highbrows down to my level, A rockers take on Caruso. Enrico rocks dude! It is simply amazing how that full rich voice shines though the archaic stone age recording equipment of his day, I can only imagine the power and soul that his 'live' performance must have been. Pavarotti and Domingo with all the millions of dollars of studio gear couldn't hold a candle to Enrico.
Just my two cents.
hoggwild89 3 years ago 3
Your two cents might as well be two trillion! Being a metalhead extreme myself, he was the FIRST OPERA singer of any kind I heard and...HE WILL ALWAYS BE THE BAR that all Tenors (and even some rock voices) since 1900 will always try to reach. He only loses luster because of the recording devices of his time. Pre-mono and mono recordings get scratchy sounding in trying to improve it. Think I will get out my record player and my 78's and give them a twirl. ENRICO ROCKS, TOTALLY!
RRydnew 3 years ago 4
Rry,
Yes! Most rock voices can not hope to attain
what E.C. achieved in his day (and ours too!)
hoggwild89 3 years ago
Of course there are great tenors with talent (incl. Caruso), but what makes someone unforgettable is the way and to what extent his listeners are affected in their hearts. There's only one tenor, Jussi Bjorling, that can move his listeners to choke-up merely by having them explain the tenor's qualities. The following quote from some music producer puts it best... continued
noonah08 3 years ago
"the tear in his voice communicates instantly; it connotes tenderness, sweetness and sincerity. And the remarkable 'ping' of his easy upper register is thrilling- even heroic. He means business. His singing was as natural as speech there is such joy in his singing that it becomes and end in itself." cont...
noonah08 3 years ago
"Many years ago I sat beside a very old woman at the Metropolitan Opera and she reminisced about singers long gone. She spoke kindly of Gigli, di Stefano, Tucker, martinelli, and her critical acumen was to be admired. But when I asked her about Bjorling, she could barely speak: 'Every note of his went straight to my heart,' she said through barely choked-back tears. 'God must have wanted to listen to him alone in heaven.'"
noonah08 3 years ago
Thank you Jussi!
steveonstaves 3 years ago
Absolutely marvellous
rhythmstick1 3 years ago
I have this record!!! Do you know when the recording was taken?
yours E.
Jeansschwimmer 3 years ago
I believe 1910-1912 period I used to listen to caruso when I was 9 or 10 years old and remebered most of the dates to those recordings
lpvcrcd 3 years ago
2:20 - if that isn't the purest tone.... then I dunno what is.
This isn't C. at his best and he still manages to sound magnificent.
TheeREALNeuralTech 3 years ago
I have this recording in my collection. Does anybody know when it was recorded?
many thanks
Jeansschwimmer 3 years ago
Yes, it was recorded 17th of March 1907. He recorded it three times - this is the last recording. See my video response.
tomfroekjaer 2 years ago
A truly wonderful tenor voice really, is a pity it cannot be quite perceptioned in its total dimension because of the time it was recorded
pianist527 3 years ago 3
If all these singers were not 'great' in one sense or another
would we still be talking about them?
How about paying a little bit of attention to those who deserve to be recognised as the heirs to Caruso et al?
A favourite pupil of Mario Del Monaco: Oscar Mancino.
Another true artist with a very wide range.
Listen to The Voice of Naples and let him know what you think since most promoters today seem to concentrate on 'virtual', here today gone tomorrow, artists.
Viva La Musica!
Riprig 3 years ago 2
i have the complete enricc caruso recordings and filmography as well is documentaries on him,interested write to me
elgrancaruso3 3 years ago
Price also had a dark ,mezzorial voice but she was a lyric soprano while Nilsson had a bright instrument was a Wagnerian soprano.Domingo's voice wasn't free and effortless .He sounds nasal and throaty.He didn't use dynamic shading apart from his bad falsseto he could'nt sing mezza voce not the best thing for a Puccini ,Donizetti,Mozart,Gounod,Massenet,Donizetti interpreter as he was.For example in soft passages of Ingemisco he resorts to a disjointed falsetto.
tonyantony 3 years ago
Price also had a dark ,mezzorial voice but she was a lyric soprano while Nilsson had a bright instrument was a Wagnerian soprano.Domingo's voice wasn't free and effortless .He sounds nasal and throaty.He didn't use dynamic shading apart from his bad falsseto he could'nt sing mezza voce not the best thing for a Puccini ,Donizetti,Mozart,Gounod,Massenet,Donizetti interpreter as he was.For example in soft passages of Ingemisco he resorts to a disjointed falsetto.
tonyantony 3 years ago
As you know Caruso started as a lyric tenor and sang Arturo and could hit a high D then he started to move to spinto-dramatic repertoire after special training .Moreover,Caruso was a huge dramatic tenor much heavier than Domingo..Having a dark voice doesn't mean you are a dramatic tenor.Bergonzi had a dark instrument but he was a full lyric with a voice much smaller than the very bright voice of Richard Tucker
tonyantony 3 years ago
I think Domingo was a real tenor although he had strained high notes.Domingo's voice is not as baritonal as del Monaco's or Corelli's one.I think he started as baritone by mistake just like Bergonzi and when he realised he was a tenor he didn't manage to switch perfectly to a tenor .Caruso had problems with his high notes but always had plenty of squillo up to high b and his singing is always effortless and very relaxed.Don't forget he was a heavy smoker and this may had affected his voice
tonyantony 3 years ago
Domingo the best?Very funny .Domingo has a very limited technique .He couldn't stand tenor tessitura without strain ,his voice is nasal, could't sing mezza voce he hasn't a very big voice ,he is monotonous without dynamic shading.Caruso was divine.Even with the very limited recording techniques he sounds like a God.Few singers can be compared to him among them Fleta,Tucker,early di Stefano, Gigli,Martinelli,Lauri-Volpi.Nicolai Gedda was also divine although he had a very different repertoire
tonyantony 3 years ago
Caruso è il più grande tenore!!!!! Non ci sono paragoni!! Tra quelli nominati è davvero la lista dei migliori cantanti , ma sopra atutti si innalza la meraviglia di tutti i tempi, la vetta, la più alta cima irraggiungibile. Soltanto la Maria Callas ha dato emozioni così belle e paragonabili a quelle che il grande Enrico Caruso ci ha donato. Grazie a questo miracolo di voce||||
Brunosprek 3 years ago 3
Although I agree that Caruso was superior to Domingo, your berating of Domingo is quite unfair. If Domingo's technique is so limited, how has his voice lasted over 4 1/2 decades of professional singing? Domingo's voice is certainly not as loud as Caruso or Del Monaco's, but it is loud enough to be heard clearly over the booming orchestra in Otello, Parsifal, and Die Walkure. His singing is not without dynamic shading, and his many millions of fans would say it is not at all monotonous.
rmm413b 3 years ago
Besides, Domingo's problem has never (even now at 67 years of age) really been with the tenor tessitura, but rather with the highest notes of the tenor range, which if you'll recall (or research) also caused Caruso some difficulty. They both have more baritonal, less "true tenor" voices. Also, Domingo may have a more nasally voice but that's in style now (Florez, Vargas, Villazon, Bros...). On a different note, good to see someone who remembers the great Giovanni Martinelli.
rmm413b 3 years ago
My father used to say "Domingo couldn't carry Pavarotti's music" and Pavarotti was not born with the instrument Caruso had. Though Domingo can be considered a great artist he has sung roles at times that were out his confort zone and the voice becomes forced and really not pleasant to listen to. I remember hearing his rodolfo in boheme.Not an amazing
experience!! I actually wrote james levine about this and suggested he should cast tenors more suitable for a particular role.
lpvcrcd 3 years ago
why he doesnt has a a mp3 song.
WNDOWSUE 3 years ago
this record is from my grandfather´s times
whelljack 3 years ago
Enrico Caruso, the better Tenore of the times (after Pavarotti). His voice... His voice is so beautiful!
Why his voice is so beautiful? why???
When I listen him I just cry...
Caruso il migliore
FabioThePianist 3 years ago 2
Mario Lanza? Hahahahaha
ericnj28 3 years ago
"Placido Domingo the best"???????? HAHAHAHA, that is so funny I can't stand it. Do you have decent hearing? LISTEN TO CARUSO'S TIMBRE, THAN REVIEW YOUR STUPID COMMENT ABOUT "PLACIDO DOMINGO BEING THE BEST," u dumb shit.
MaryEllen1252 4 years ago
what are you talking about? do you know what thats mean Caruso? read please
susanaq1976 4 years ago 3
no one like Placido Domingo..... THE BEST!
vejeteojete 4 years ago
I beg to differ.
phantom4087 3 years ago
**Enrico Caruso had a wonderful voice indeed, I just wish that the recordings would have been a little better.
Now...I just love the voice of L. Pavarotti...
He would be my all time favorite when it comes to "tenors". I was lucky enough to hear him live in Barbados and it was just wonderful...just wonderful!
jimchuff 4 years ago 4
Elvis, and Caruso are apples and oranges, Caruso was clearly the most talented Tenor to ever live, and Elvis was also extremely talented, and he was also the King of Rock'n'Roll.
hnksnw 4 years ago 3
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he's was good. but mario lanza was much better!
shark419 4 years ago
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he sounded like orphic whale
bunnyz324 4 years ago
Opera is not my favorite genre but I ve been in one performance of this play (Pagliacci) and this song is, GODDAMIT, so powerful so MTF amazing, it breaks my freacking heart.
I am not an connoseiur and surely I cannot aprecciate as much as you do the voice of Caruso (besides the natural admiration, common to everyone), but really this story and specially this part is brutal. Poor pagliacci, we the pagliacci!
MarioNess 4 years ago 2
How glorious he sounds, even given the primitive recording technology of the time. Thanks for posting this. What year was it originally recorded?
MarionCap 4 years ago
tengo la discografia completa de caruso,documentales y la pelicula que filmo MY COUSIN,interesados escribanme.
elcantante45 4 years ago
This man was the greatest singer in history.
Arkady63 4 years ago
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he was so talented so great, but I thing Elvis has had the best voice of all time.
bushthebest 4 years ago
LOL!!!
That was really funny! Good one! ROFL!
Arkady63 4 years ago 6
Bush, keep it down. The opera lovers here will rape and kill you if you go on.
croscream 4 years ago
You're an idiot Bush. Please tell me you're kidding.
phantom4087 3 years ago
You sum it succinctly! No doubt the most opulent voice in musical history! He was born with that gift and just honed it into a remarkable instrument.
lpvcrcd 3 years ago 2
Waht a powerful chest registry! It's almost as if a bariton were given a higher range. Pavarotti's voice is sharper. The timbre is higher than his though they can hit the same notes. Amazing!
philomelodia 4 years ago
Yes. Caruso was a baritone tenor. Pavarotti had a much higher pitched voice, making top Cs easier. Though Caruso had one, he used it rarely.
On the other hand, Caruso's voice was like gold velvet, he never sang sharp and his phrasing definitive!
Not to be rude to Pavarotti, he just wasn't in the same league.
Some of the great tenors include Tamagno, Gigli, Zenatello, Bjorling, Pattiera and Schipa.
All sang before the war.
Spats47 4 years ago 7
true it was the golden age,they have all gone
marternelli said we tenors are not fit to lick his boots,you have only to lison to agree. excuse my spelling.
pavy456 4 years ago
Hi!
You're right. I saw Martinelli give a lecture when I was about 10yo. He always said that Caruso was without comparison. actually, Caruso gave Martinelli one of the costumes he wore when singing just this aria. Martinelli said that he was very honoured but never had the courage to wear it himself.
Spats47 4 years ago
Martinelli said "If You put the voices and characters of Pertile, Lauri Volpi, Gigli, Schipa and all the others together and make one voice out of all of them, this being would not be worth to kiss carusos shoes." (Sorry for my english ;-)) And he was right. Although these where all great singers (Gigli with restrictions), the only tenor comparable to him was Fernando De Lucia, no one else. And Puccini said to him, when he heard him the first time: "Who sent You to me? God?"
Dekyi1210 3 years ago
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only person who can stand in front of caruso is Jussi Bjorling - he may be even better!!!
Artisticz 3 years ago
Yes. I've read this before and these were all beautiful SOUNDING Italian tenor voices Martinelli mentioned. Even the great Gigli[I see you are not completely sold on beniamino] would sing an aria and say "Yes..But For Caruso" Caruso held quite a large mantel.Seems a bit unfair to many a great tenor to have had to sing in the same era with him..Tucker,Peerce,Di Stefano,Corelli carried on as best they could.Are you familiar with Gianni Raimondi?I heard him live;very good with a lush tone!
lpvcrcd 3 years ago
Yes!!You are right!The power of caruso, the fullness of tone, the relative ease he sang the most demanding verdi arias Incomparable instrument. Pavarotti stylish lyrical and a nice italian sound A great singer but never born with caruso's voice... none have been.. as you mention Francesco Tamagno[the original otello] gigli[I consider the second greatest tenor] Jussi,Schipa.Some mention pertile,lauri volpi,tagliavini, peerce. Martinelli a true workhorse.Good list spats47
lpvcrcd 3 years ago
Thank you Enrico,thank you Beniamino!
steveonstaves 3 years ago
Do consider how primitive the recording equipment was in his time. We will never know his true Genius and must rely on the words of others. I do love his voice, but cannot judge him fairly against modern singers, i.e., recordings of his time.
joezeppy06 4 years ago
I have to agree when people point to the poor quality of the recording - but some of those notes, the power of them, the way he holds them - it's quite astonishing. Someone has to be the greatest tenor. Maybe it's him.
farliesbirthday 4 years ago 3
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This guy looks like a hitman!
I understood the Mafia had him hit because he wouldn't give money to them...
SO he was supposed to have been such a great tenor?I think not!
joeocho88 4 years ago
Everyone from earlier singers before his generation, singers of his own time to Pavarotti and Domingo agreed that he was the greatest...and of-course he was! If he sounded this good recorded through an acoustic horn, how good did he REALLY sound!?
Spats47 4 years ago
I heard he destroyed his vocal chords with a poisonous throat spray marketed at the time as "medicine." Legend has it, Caruso died singing.
stardingo747 4 years ago
don't you know anything about Italians? They have been infamous for YEARS for dressing in expensive, gawdy clothes. The men are actually much worse than the women when it comes to clothing.
stardingo747 4 years ago
What a Voice!! The "Voice of the Century" they call him. Sharp dresser too. I'm half Italian and half Irish and Dutch, but I tell people I'm Italian. It just works better with the babes.
johnseeley 4 years ago
Mario Lanza better than Caruso? How so? That's like saying Sarah Brightman is better than Claudia Muzio.
manumaltes 4 years ago 2
cacruso was a great singer no question about it. but to me mario lanza was better
shark419 4 years ago
you dont know that mario lanza never sang an opera?
pennpatrik 4 years ago
Me arrodillo a semejante voz, que deleite escucharle Caruso, Gracias por semejante gusto.
engel101092 4 years ago
Dios mio! Que voz!!!!!
Rubencxjo 4 years ago 3
i've heard caruso had so much power and superb breath control and caruso good shatter a wine glass from singing and pavarotti admits that he is not as good as caruso
poqo1 4 years ago
In no way was Pavarotti better than Caruso.
hnksnw 4 years ago 6
Grazie,è una mervaviglia.
geologicalmap 4 years ago
creo que el mejor de todos los tenores, unico
cgem1979 4 years ago
sem duvida um dos melhore tenor de todos os tempos. e que sem sombra de dúvidas deixou a sua marca.
jfbastos78 4 years ago