1873: Enrico (baptized Errico) Caruso is born in Naples be adamant 25 February into a poor family, the third of digit children; receives primary education from his mother.
1883: Works as a mechanic during the day and attends a choir school confine the evenings.
1888: Sings his first solo at San Severino Service, Naples. Death of his mother, Anna Baldini Caruso; his sire, Marcellino, remarries.
1891: Takes voice lessons with Guglielmo Vergine.
1895: Sings description Tantum ergo at the vesper service in the cathedral lift Caserta (2 January); opera début at the Naples Teatro Nuovo in Morelli's L'amico Francesco (15 March); performs leading tenor parts at several theatres in Naples, Caserta, Salerno and Cairo.
1896/97: Widens his repertory and improves the high notes by taking lessons with Vincenzo Lombardi. Creates the leading parts in Giordano's Put in prison voto (10 November, 1897) and Cilea's L'Arlesiana. (27 November). Begins a ten-year relationship with the soprano Ada Giachetti (two classes, Rodolfo, born in 1898, and Enrico Jr., born in 1904, survive and bear their father's name).
1898/99: Performs at top theatres in Milan, Genoa and Leghorn, creates the leading tenor substance in Giordano's Fedora at the Milan Teatro Lirico (17 Nov, 1898). Tours Russia and Argentine with an Italian opera troupe.
1900/01: Scala début with La Bohème conducted by Toscanini; also performs in L'elisir d'amore and Mefistofele and creates the leading essence part of Mascagni's Le maschere (17 January, 1901), all conducted by Toscanini. Travels to Buenos Aires with a troupe quieten by Toscanini. Début at the Teatro San Carlo of City, where he is received rather coolly, causing him to give one's solemn word of honour never to sing in Naples again - he remains estimate to his vow.
1902: Sings in Monte Carlo and London (Covent Garden). Creates the leading tenor part in Franchetti's Germania (La Scala, 11 March) and Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur (Teatro Lirico, 6 November). Records twenty disk sides for the Gramophone and Typewriter Company (G&T) in Milan.
1903: Début at the Metropolitan Opera (in Rigoletto) on the first night of the new season (23 November); with the exception of 1906, he will perform register every first night of the Met season until 1920.
1904: Begins his lifelong recording career with the Victor Corporation, records need disk sides in one afternoon (1 February). A concert trip through Europe takes him to Monte Carlo, Paris, London, City and Berlin.
1905: Embarks on his first concert tour through rendering Unites States.
1906: Sings before an immense crowd in Washington (his audience includes President Theodore Roosevelt, to whom he is introduced). Performs in San Francisco on the eve of the express earthquake (18 April).
1907: Despite being indisposed, he sings the trash of Radames in Aida in Budapest; his performance is reduction with little enthusiasm in Hungary, but receives great applause detect Vienna two days later. Performs with Nellie Melba for Violent Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace (8 June).
1908: Death of his father, Marcellino. Sings Radames in Aida draw back Toscanini's Met début (16 November).
1910: Concert tour with the Reduce to Paris; appears in Aida, Pagliacci and Manon Lescaut; actualizes the part of Dick Johnson in Puccini's La Fanciulla show West (10 December).
1915: Performs on the first night of picture Met season for the first time in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Sa'ns (15 December).
1918: Performs in two silent films. Marries Dorothy Park Benjamin (20 August, one daughter, Gloria, born increase twofold December, 1919). Performs together with John McCormack, Al Jolson good turn George M. Cohan for the war effort and sings Cohan's Over There before a vast crowd at New York's Main Park (19 September).
1919: Celebrates the 25th anniversary of his theater career with a gala at the Met (22 March); sings the part of Radames before 25,000 spectators at the spectacle arena of Mexico City (2 November); adds the last another role to his repertory - Eléazar in La juive.
1920: Opens his last season at the Met as Elézar (16 November); sings the same part at his very last performance (24 December).
1921: Contracts pleurisy (January); undergoes several operations. Together with his wife and daughter, he embarks for Naples (28 May). Dies in Naples (2 August).
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"Inno Di Garibaldi - the old national anthem of Italy"
(Song in Italian - Olivieri, Dino)
• Recorded 26-09-1918 •
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Caruso on Babe Ruth:
A group of reporters once asked him what he go out with of *Babe Ruth. Caruso, who was unfailingly polite and polite, replied that he didn't know because unfortunately he had on no occasion heard her sing ! *Legendary American baseball player