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The Great Caruso
This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to Musetta's because he sings; to Dorothy's because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel-chested, loud, emotional, and unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that 'the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man': he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.
May 14, 1905 in Texas, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
July 22, 1903 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy
5 November 1890, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
June 24, 1932 in Marseille, France
December 11, 1888 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
9 April 1911, Fresno, California, USA
August 21, 1891 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 March 1900, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Vienna, Austria]
July 29, 1873 in Binghamton, New York, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
November 23, 1909 in USA
