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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 2,012,423 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 73 in 2019). Enrico Caruso is the 20th most popular singer (down from 18th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Italy (down from 204th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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  • 72

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  • 8.70

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Enrico Caruso ranks 20 out of 3,528Before him are Joan Baez, Julio Iglesias, Jim Morrison, Montserrat Caballé, Demis Roussos, and Adriano Celentano. After him are Farinelli, Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand, Tupac Shakur, Johnny Cash, and Agnetha Fältskog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Enrico Caruso ranks 3Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Thérèse of Lisieux. After him are Colette, Konstantin von Neurath, Alexis Carrel, Jules Rimet, Johannes V. Jensen, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, Henri Barbusse, and Alfred Jarry. Among people deceased in 1921, Enrico Caruso ranks 2Before him is Camille Saint-Saëns. After him are Peter Kropotkin, Peter I of Serbia, Gabriel Lippmann, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Alfred Hermann Fried, Carl Menger, John Boyd Dunlop, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Talaat Pasha, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Enrico Caruso ranks 210 out of 4,668Before him are Pope Clement XIII (1693), Vitellius (15), Pertinax (126), Pope Clement IX (1600), Otho (32), and Adriano Celentano (1938). After him are Sergio Leone (1929), Farinelli (1705), Pope Urban III (1200), Pope Leo III (750), Pope Marcellus II (1501), and Marie de' Medici (1575).

Among SINGERS In Italy

Among singers born in Italy, Enrico Caruso ranks 3Before him are Luciano Pavarotti (1935) and Adriano Celentano (1938). After him are Farinelli (1705), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Toto Cutugno (1943), Albano Carrisi (1943), Salvatore Adamo (1943), Gigliola Cinquetti (1947), Renata Tebaldi (1922), Domenico Modugno (1928), and Mina (1940).