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Enrico Caruso performance at the Amazon Theatre (1897)

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The rubber barons enticed Caruso to perform here in Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda.

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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (/kəˈrz/,[1] US also /kəˈrs/,[2][3][4] Italian: [enˈriːko kaˈruːzo]; 25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made 247 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920,[5] which made him an international popular entertainment star.

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