Caruso in his dressing gown, taken by his wife
mainWe have been sent this newly accessible domestic shot of the great tenor, taken sometime between 1915 and 1920 and archived on a glass negative in the Bain News Service.
I want that dressing-gown.
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As the story goes, John McCormack runs into Caruso and greets him by saying: “Well, how is the greatest tenor of all?” Caruso replies: “I was about to ask you the same question!”
The REAL Three Tenors: Caruso, McCormack, Gigli.
Sorry, Bjorling replaces Gigli.
Sorry, no he doesn’t.
Don’t forget the feet. They don’t call them “opera slippers” for nothing.
Interesting anecdote about the Met on tour in 1906 during the San Francisco fire and earthquake, when Mahler conducted. Enrico was certainly in love with himself:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/enrico-caruso-survives-the-san-francisco-earthquake
But Mahler didn’t conduct the Met until 1908
You are correct about Mahler’s debut with the Met; my mistake! In the de Lagrange biography, he talks about Caruso just before Mahler’s arrival.
“Caruso—or, rather, his unbelievably devoted valet—even managed to remove the bulk of his luggage, which included 54 steamer trunks containing, among other things, some 50 self-portraits.“
The headline is rather ambiguous.