Enrico Caruso - The Caruso Edition. Vol. 1 (1993)

01 - Tu non mi vuoi piu 
02 - Tosca- E lucevan le stelle
03 - Les Huguenots - Qui sotto il ciel
04 - Rigoletto- Questa o quella
05 - Rigoletto- La donna e mobile
06 - L'elisir d'amore- Una furtiva lagrima
07 - Aida- Celeste Aida
08 - Tosca- Recondita armonia
09 - Tosca- E lucevan le stelle
10 - Cavelleria rusticana- Siciliana
11 - I pagliacci- Vesti la giubba
12 - Manon- Chiudo gli occhi (Il sogno)
13 - Mattinata
14 - I pescatori de perle- Mi par d'udir ancor
15 - Don Pasquale- Com'e gentil (Serenata)
16 - Carmen- Il fior che avevi a me
17 - Les Hugenots- Bianca al par di neve alpina
18 - La gioconda- Cielo e mar!
19 - Cavelleria rusticava- Brindisi
20 - Martha- M'appari tutt'amor
21 - La boheme- Che gelida manina
22 - Faust- Salut, demeure chaste et pure
23 - Il trovatore- Di quella pira
24 - La favorita- Spirto gentil, ne'sogni miei

Enrico Caruso - Tenor 
Bessie Abott - Soprano 
Mario Ancona - Baritone 
Francesco Daddi – Baritone
Geraldine Farrar – Soprano
Louise Homer - Mezzo-Soprano
Nellie Melba – Soprano
Antonio Scotti – Baritone
Marcella Sembrich – Soprano
Gina Severina - Mezzo-Soprano
Gina Viafora - Mezzo-Soprano
Marcel Journet - Bass
Francesco Cilèa - Piano
Salvatore Cottone - Piano
Luigi Denza - Piano
Ruggero Leoncavallo – Piano

Enrico Caruso, original name Errico Caruso (born Feb. 25, 1873, Naples, Italy—died Aug. 2, 1921, Naples), the most admired Italian operatic tenor of the early 20th century and one of the first musicians to document his voice on gramophone recordings.

Caruso was born into a poor family. Although he was a musical child who sang Neapolitan folk songs everywhere and joined his parish choir at the age of nine, he received no formal music training until his study with Guglielmo Vergine at age 18. Within three years, in 1894, he made his operatic debut, in Mario Morelli’s L’Amico Francesco in Naples at the Teatro Nuovo. Four years later, after adding a number of impressive roles to his repertoire, he was asked to create the role of Loris in the premiere of Umberto Giordano’s Fedora in Milan. He was a sensation and soon had engagements in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Russia), and Buenos Aires. He made his La Scala debut with La Bohème (1900). In 1901, after being unfavourably received in his performance in L’elisir d’amore in Naples, he vowed never again to sing in Naples, and he kept his word.

Caruso then created the chief tenor parts in Adriana Lecouvreur, Germania, and La fanciulla del West, and for the La Scala company the tenor roles in Le Maschere and L’elisir d’amore. World recognition came in the spring of 1902 after he sang in La Bohème at Monte Carlo and in Rigoletto at London’s Covent Garden. He made his American debut in Rigoletto at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on Nov. 23, 1903, and continued to open each season there for the next 17 years, presenting 36 roles in all. His last public appearance—his 607th performance with the Metropolitan—was as Eléazar in La Juive (Dec. 24, 1920).

Caruso became the most celebrated and highest paid of his contemporaries worldwide. He made recordings of about 200 operatic excerpts and songs; many of them are still being published. His voice was sensuous, lyrical, and vigorous in dramatic outbursts and became progressively darker in timbre in his later years. Its appealing tenor qualities were unusually rich in lower registers and abounded in warmth, vitality, and smoothness. --- britannica.com

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