Show enrico caruso the greatest of modern tenors caruso was a bricklayer in his younger days ile he was the sor son of his parents every one of the first 17 children died in infancy carusa joined the metropolitan opera ic 1903 and during the next 17 years sang over times for which h he was paid over a million and a hall dollars or an average rate of a performance offered q night at one time he protested thal thai 2500 would be quite enough carusa refused to sin sing in his homo home town naples because because lie he was once hissed there one of his favorite stunts was wal that of breaking glasses by singing to them his voice at a certain note causing a vibration that glass not withstand new biography |