ORIGINAL Photo Opera Tenor Legend ENRICO CARUSO 1915 Start Price USD 34.95 Current Price USD 34.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, August 31, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Florida See more about 'ORIGINAL Photo Opera Tenor Legend ENRICO CARUSO 1915' Description You are bidding on a RARE and VINTAGE ITEM of OPERA HISTORY MEMORABILIA. Up for auction is an ORIGINAL PHOTO which shows legendary Italian TENOR ENRICO CARUSO, probably 1915. This RARE and GENUINE PHOTO (“Schlatiman Foto Mexico credits on margin below) was issued for PUBLISHMENT PURPOSES due to concert in Cuba – various copy captions (in Spanish) are pasted on backside, blue REFERENCE LINE for layout purposes on margin below. This RARE and VINTAGE PHOTO measures app. 3 5/8” x 5 3/8” inches and is in overall GOOD condition: minor edge and margin wear, various marks and handwriting on backside. Please see scans for judging overall quality or ask questions prior to bidding. Background: Enrico Caruso Biography. The Italian tenor Caruso (1873-1921) was one of the greatest opera singers of all time. The most famous of nearly 70 roles that he sang were the clown in Leoncavallo's `Pagliacci' and Rodolfo in Puccini's `La Bohme'. Enrico Caruso was born on Feb. 25, 1873, in Naples, Italy. He was the 18th of 21 children, only three of whom lived beyond infancy. The family was poor. As a boy, Caruso worked in a machine shop and ironworks. Determined to be a singer, he sang in churches and on street corners to earn money for lessons. In 1894 Caruso made his formal debut in Naples in an unsuccessful opera, `L'Amico Francesco'. National acclaim came in 1898 when he created the role of Loris in Umberto Giordano's `Fedora'. His debut at the noted La Scala in Milan was in `La Bohme' in 1900. In 1902 he sang with Nellie Melba at Monte Carlo and then at London's Covent Garden, in Rome and Lisbon, and in South America. In 1903 he made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he sang the role of the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's`Rigoletto'. Caruso appeared in nearly every country of Europe and North and South America. He sang chiefly in French and Italian, but he also learned seven other languages. He sang in the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan in 1910 and was one of the first great singers to make phonograph records. He was talented at drawing caricatures and published many of them. With the Italian soprano Ada Giochetti, he had four sons, of whom two lived. In 1918 he married Dorothy Benjamin of New York. They had one daughter. Caruso died in Naples on Aug. 2, 1921, of pleurisy. Really a HISTORICAL and RARE PHOTO ITEM – for any collector of OPERA MUSIC HISTORY and TENOR ENRICO CARUSO MEMORABILIA. If you have any queries pls. do not hesitate to contact us prior to bidding. Questions? Need to know more? Are interested in other items? Want another scan or the cost for different shipment or other payment options? Email me through ‘Ask Seller a Question’ link. We accept Personal USD checks, sorry NO money order. We ship WORLDWIDE and combine auctions to save shipping costs whenever possible. Shipping fee for these items (listed in this auction) to United States will be 5$. All other countries please ask for specific shipping fee PRIOR to bidding. Place a Bid!