Enrico's Donkey Serenade ♫

Short video-photo related to some Enrico Caruso's funny moments. A Donkey Serenade respectfully dedicated to his true sense of humor in opera and in life.
The drawings; (he made of himself and often give as present) is interesting to look at the one dedicated to Mme. Donalda (1905)/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg1g3kSBiEM /who sung as replacement of Melba with him for the first time at Covent Garden and got along very well together. She had only performed that opera in French before and learned in 4 days!
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note: May be I will replace the music to "Noche Feliz" recorded in 1920 sessions, just now I remembered that song, if anyone thinks it's best, please put samllest star rate , so I realize and re-edit video. Thank you.
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Enrico
• Caruso
• DONKEY
• SERENADE
• sung
• by
• Mario
• lanza

[marilynf]

This is Mario Lanza singing Donkey Serenade

[balletamie]

Yes he is, cause Donkey S is the happiest song I get to know.

[hiyadroogs]

Caruso sang quite a few songs in English.

[badpdx]

@Hjadlowker: well, there is this, for what it's worth: /watch?v=ZXT8x7874bI

[Hjadlowker]

@lpvcrcd De Reszke! I wish it were him! The great Jean de Reszke made no recordings. His voice does murmur faintly in a primitive cilinder made by the Met librarian Lionel Mapleson during an actual performance at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1901. That recording was issued comercially on Lp records in the 80's, but if you expected to hear Jean's voice, you were in for a disappointment. The Donkey's Serenade was written 11 years after Caruso's death (7 after De Reszke's).

[MrPedrogranados]

is not caruso, is mario lanza

[31operafan]

@hiyadroogs Yes he did, but his English was a lot worse than Mario Lanza's. English was Lanza's native language, and Caruso usually spoke Italian. I have heard Caruso's English was extremely limited.

[31operafan]

This is Mario Lanza singing the song. But I think using humorous pictures of Caruso was a nice touch. :)

[4drcoop]

Respond to this video... lots of fun, thanks

[4drcoop]

@marilynf The caricatures are by Caruso himself, I'm told he was known for drawing them during breaks in recording or rehearsal. The originals are quite valuable.

[JussiBjorling1960]

Lanza, not Caruso.

Video was fun, though....thanks.

[marsalara]

Caruso recorded many songs in english, but he never sang this donkey serenade. he recorded "A Dream" and quite a few others.

[lpvcrcd]

Are you sure this is Mario? I thought it was Jean De Reszke