Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Enrico Caruso and the 1906 Earthquake Enrico Caruso (1873 - 1921) is considered by many music lovers to be the greatest operatic tenor of all time. He was on tour in San Francisco during the Great Earthquake, and appeared in Carmen at the Mission Opera House a few hours before the disaster. Arnold Genthe, the famed photographer, saw Caruso ...

Early 1900's Enrico Caruso Music (1906-1920) Recordings From Victrola.

CARUSO ON THE ART OF SINGING CARUSO AND TETRAZZINI ON THE ART OF SINGING BY ENRICO CARUSO AND LUISA TETRAZZINI Of the thousands ot people who visit the opera during the season few outside of the small proportion of the initiated realize how much the performance of the singer is dependent on previous rehearsal, constant practice and watchfulness over the physical con- ditions that preserve that ...