SINGER

Enrico Caruso

1873 - 1921

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Enrico Caruso (, US also , 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 that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enrico Caruso has received more than 2,198,058 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Enrico Caruso is the 22nd most popular singer (down from 20th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 209th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Singer.

Enrico Caruso was a famous Italian opera singer who is most famous for his recording of the aria "Vesti la giubba" from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

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  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Enrico Caruso ranks 22 out of 4,381. Before him are Adriano Celentano, Frank Sinatra, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Demis Roussos, and Tupac Shakur. After him are Patti Smith, Montserrat Caballé, Umm Kulthum, Brian Johnson, Farinelli, and Serge Gainsbourg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Enrico Caruso ranks 3. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Thérèse of Lisieux. After him are Johannes V. Jensen, Colette, Konstantin von Neurath, Jules Rimet, Alexis Carrel, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, and Alfred Jarry. Among people deceased in 1921, Enrico Caruso ranks 1. After him are Camille Saint-Saëns, Peter Kropotkin, Gabriel Lippmann, Peter I of Serbia, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Alfred Hermann Fried, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Talaat Pasha, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Nicholas I of Montenegro.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enrico Caruso ranks 182 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Pius IV (1499), Pope Clement XII (1652), Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Innocent X (1574), Pope Sixtus V (1520), and Scipio Africanus (-235). After him are Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Pope Julius III (1487), Pope Honorius III (1148), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Paul IV (1476), and Pope Felix I (300).

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Among SINGERS In Italy

Among singers born in Italy, Enrico Caruso ranks 4. Before him are Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Toto Cutugno (1943), and Adriano Celentano (1938). After him are Farinelli (1705), Albano Carrisi (1943), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Salvatore Adamo (1943), Renata Tebaldi (1922), Renata Scotto (1934), Domenico Modugno (1928), and Mina (1940).

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