Show enrico caruso the greatest of modern tenors caruso was a bricklayer in his younger days he was the lath son of his parents every one of the first 17 children died in infancy caruso I 1 joined the metropolitan opera it 1903 and during the next 17 years sang pang over times for which lie he was paid over a million and a hall I 1 dollars or an average rate of a performance offered 2 night at one time he protested that thai 2500 would be quite enough carusa refused to sing in his home town naples because lie he was once hissed there one of his fa favorite stunts shirts was wal that of breaking glasses by singing to them his voice at a certain note causing a vibration that glass bouic not withstand new biography |